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Overview
NGINX is the world’s most popular Web Server, high performance Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, API Gateway and Content Cache.
Key Features
High performance Load Balancer
Reverse Proxy and API Gateway
Content Cache
Configurable via text-based directives
Extensible via dynamic and static modules
Architected to scale using a master process and worker processes
Use Cases
Web Server, Load Balancer, Reverse Proxy, API Gateway, Content Cache
Getting Started
For a gentle introduction to NGINX basics, please see our Beginner’s Guide. To run a locally compiled binary: `sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx`. Test with `curl localhost`.
Recent Updates
Mainline binaries are built from the master branch and contain the latest features and bugfixes.
Did You Know?
NGINX scales beyond Operating System process limitations by operating as a collection of processes. A master process maintains worker processes which automatically adjust to the number of available CPU cores.