Nginx (pronounced Engine-X) is an alternative, open-source web server which is designed to be lightweight and high-performance and since its release in 2004 it has seen a steady increase in uptake. It’s stable, easy to configure and uses an asynchronous architecture to ensure that under heavy load that page requests are returned quickly to the end user.

Having landed $3 million in funding in October, December saw Nginx leapfrog Microsoft’s IIS web server to become the world’s second most popular choice behind Apache. According to Netcraft, Nginx now hosts 22.2 million active sites, a 1.9 million increase on November.

Nginx Performance in cPanel

If you’d like to try out this lightweight hard-hitter please get in touch; we’d be happy to set you up with an Nginx Cloud server for you to test.