Well, nginx started because Apache devs didn't want to address the issue that arised when lots of users with slow connections were accessing the site. Anyone e

Well, nginx started because Apache devs didn't want to address the issue that arised when lots of users with slow connections were accessing the site. Anyone else remember the Slowloris HTTP DoS - ngingx is basically immune to it... As Sysoev was working for one of the Russia's biggest portals that apache couldn't handle very well.. So he wrote a server that did one thing very well - waits until client submits their request and then serves this request as fast as possible. And he did it well :) Slowloris HTTP DoS - http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/ http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/