Nginx --- 高性能的 HTTP 和 反向代理 服务器

keelort

Nginx ("engine x") 是一个高性能的 HTTP 和 反向代理 服务器，也是一个 IMAP/POP3/SMTP 代理服务器。 Nginx 是由 Igor Sysoev 为俄罗斯访问量第二的 Rambler.ru 站点开发的，它已经在该站点运行超过两年半了。Igor 将源代码以类BSD许可证的形式发布。尽管还是测试版，但是，Nginx 已经因为它的稳定性、丰富的功能集、示例配置文件和低系统资源的消耗而闻名了。

不知道有没有人关注，现在Portage里面有，但是Wiki没人写，据说性能远超过Apache，比Lighttpd也强不少，稳定性和资源消耗都很优秀

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by me (Igor Sysoev).

nginx has been running for more than three years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com).
In March 2007 about 20% of all Russian virtual hosts were served or proxied by nginx.
According to Google Online Security Blog year ago nginx served or proxied about 4% of all Internet virtual hosts, although Netcraft showed much less percent.
According to Netcraft in March 2008 nginx served or proxied 1 million virtual hosts. The growing in picture and color!
2 of Alexa US Top100 sites use nginx.
Here are some of success stories: FastMail.FM, Wordpress.com.

The last stable version is nginx-0.6.31, the change log.
The last legacy stable version is nginx-0.5.36, the change log.
The sources are licensed under a BSD-like license.

The English Wiki.

The Russian documenatation.

Basic HTTP features:

    * Handling of static files, index files, and autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
    * Accelerated reverse proxying without caching, simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
    * Accelerated support without caching of remote FastCGI servers, simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
    * Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, and SSI. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by FastCGI or proxied servers.
    * SSL and TLS SNI support.

Mail proxy server features:

    * User redirection to IMAP/POP3 backend using an external HTTP authentication server;
    * User authentication using an external HTTP authentication server and connection redirection to internal SMTP backend;
    * Authentication methods:
          o POP3: USER/PASS, APOP, AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
          o IMAP: LOGIN, AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
          o SMTP: AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5;
    * SSL support;
    * STARTTLS and STLS support.

Tested OS and platforms:

    * FreeBSD 3 — 7    i386; FreeBSD 5 — 7    amd64;
    * Linux 2.2 — 2.6    i386; Linux 2.6    amd64;
    * Solaris 9    i386, sun4u; Solaris 10    i386, amd64, sun4v;
    * MacOS X    ppc, i386;

Architecture and scalability:

    * one master process and several workers processes. The workers run as unprivileged user;
    * kqueue (FreeBSD 4.1+), epoll (Linux 2.6+), rt signals (Linux 2.2.19+), /dev/poll (Solaris 7 11/99+), event ports (Solaris 10), select, and poll support;
    * various kqueue features support including EV_CLEAR, EV_DISABLE (to disable event temporalily), NOTE_LOWAT, EV_EOF, number of available data, error codes;
    * sendfile (FreeBSD 3.1+), sendfile (Linux 2.2+), sendfile64 (Linux 2.4.21+), and sendfilev (Solaris 8 7/01+) support;
    * accept-filter (FreeBSD 4.1+) and TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT (Linux 2.4+) support;
    * 10,000 inactive HTTP keep-alive connections take about 2.5M memory;
    * data copy operations are kept to a minimum.

Other HTTP features:

    * name- and IP-based virtual servers;
    * keep-alive and pipelined connections support;
    * flexible configuration;
    * reconfiguration and online upgrade without interruption of the client processing;
    * access log formats, bufferred writing, and quick log rotation;
    * 4xx-5xx error codes redirection;
    * rewrite module;
    * access control based on client IP address and HTTP Basic authentication;
    * PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY and MOVE methods;
    * FLV streaming;
    * speed limitation;
    * limitation of simultaneous connections from one address.

Experimental features:

    * embedded perl.

jigloo

已经火星了。它的的代码写的也比apache简单很多很多，不过没有lighttpd简单。
性能very棒。值得研究。