What do nginx and apache mean?

What do nginx and apache mean?

Nginx

Nginx is an asynchronous framework web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. The software was created by Igor Sysoev and first publicly released in 2004. A company of the same name was established in 2011 to provide support. On March 11, 2019, Nginx was acquired by F5 Networks for US$670 million. Nginx is free open source software released under the terms of a BSD-like license.

Apache

Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server software from the Apache Software Foundation that can run on most computer operating systems. Due to its cross-platform and security, it is widely used and is one of the most popular web server software. It is fast, reliable and can be extended through a simple API to compile interpreters such as Perl/Python into the server.

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