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"NGINX is now used by 16% of all Web sites" I wonder how much traffic are generated by this 16%? I would assume the traffic will be more than 16%, probably abo

by yeukhon 13y ago

"NGINX is now used by 16% of all Web sites" I wonder how much traffic are generated by this 16%? I would assume the traffic will be more than 16%, probably above 50%.

justincormack 13y ago
Well one user is Netflix for their streaming, who have 32% of US traffic...
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eksith 13y ago
That's possible. WordPress and of course Yandex.ru use them, I think, almost exclusively (there may be a few edge cases where they need to use something else). That's a pretty sizable chunk of traffic right there.
bluefin 13y ago
Would sites behind cloudflare fall into this 16% figure since the headers are cloudflare-nginx? Either way, cf powers a lot of sites.
- yeukhon 13y ago
  I wonder if ISP deliver anything through nginx.
chubot 13y ago
I doubt it, because Google doesn't use nginx for anything public facing, and I'm pretty sure Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't either. That already counts for a huge chunk of internet traffic. Nginx is good for relatively high traffic sites, but not so high traffic that you have entire teams of engineers rolling your own load balancing!
- eksith 13y ago
  Correction: Facebook does use Nginx. As does Hulu, Zappos, Zynga and Dropbox. http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/18/nginx-the-web-server-tech-youve-never-heard-of-that-powers-netflix-facebook-wordpress-and-more/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/18/nginx-the-web-server-tech-...
- yeukhon 13y ago
  Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use? If they are using Apache, I assume they have a custom version that is highly optimized. http://www.serverwatch.com/article.php/3911511/Google-Speeds-Up-the-Web-with-Apache-Web-Server-Module.htm http://www.serverwatch.com/article.php/3911511/Google-Speeds... I guess for all fairness, yeah, let's only count public facing. I think with internal proxy nginx will probably be even higher.
  - objclxt 13y ago
    > Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use? Google originally used a modified version of Apache (and, as you have linked to, contributed a module to it), but my understanding is the Google Web Server is now so far removed from Apache it bears virtually no resemblance to it.
    - meowface 13y ago
      I wonder if they ever plan on open sourcing parts of their web server.

by yeukhon 13y ago

"NGINX is now used by 16% of all Web sites" I wonder how much traffic are generated by this 16%? I would assume the traffic will be more than 16%, probably above 50%.

justincormack 13y ago

Well one user is Netflix for their streaming, who have 32% of US traffic...

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eksith 13y ago

That's possible. WordPress and of course Yandex.ru use them, I think, almost exclusively (there may be a few edge cases where they need to use something else). That's a pretty sizable chunk of traffic right there.

bluefin 13y ago

Would sites behind cloudflare fall into this 16% figure since the headers are cloudflare-nginx? Either way, cf powers a lot of sites.

yeukhon 13y ago
I wonder if ISP deliver anything through nginx.

chubot 13y ago

I doubt it, because Google doesn't use nginx for anything public facing, and I'm pretty sure Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't either. That already counts for a huge chunk of internet traffic. Nginx is good for relatively high traffic sites, but not so high traffic that you have entire teams of engineers rolling your own load balancing!

eksith 13y ago
Correction: Facebook does use Nginx. As does Hulu, Zappos, Zynga and Dropbox. http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/18/nginx-the-web-server-tech-youve-never-heard-of-that-powers-netflix-facebook-wordpress-and-more/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/18/nginx-the-web-server-tech-...
yeukhon 13y ago
Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use? If they are using Apache, I assume they have a custom version that is highly optimized. http://www.serverwatch.com/article.php/3911511/Google-Speeds-Up-the-Web-with-Apache-Web-Server-Module.htm http://www.serverwatch.com/article.php/3911511/Google-Speeds... I guess for all fairness, yeah, let's only count public facing. I think with internal proxy nginx will probably be even higher.
- objclxt 13y ago
  > Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use? Google originally used a modified version of Apache (and, as you have linked to, contributed a module to it), but my understanding is the Google Web Server is now so far removed from Apache it bears virtually no resemblance to it.
  - meowface 13y ago
    I wonder if they ever plan on open sourcing parts of their web server.