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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
by 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 agoCorrection: 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 agoDo 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 agoI wonder if they ever plan on open sourcing parts of their web server.