Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/nginx-devel

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Thanks for proding the nginx-devel package, iMil!

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 05:06:54PM +0000, Emile iMil Heitor wrote:
> Module Name:  pkgsrc
> Committed By: imil
> Date:         Fri Feb 22 17:06:54 UTC 2013
> 
> Added Files:
>       pkgsrc/www/nginx-devel: DESCR MESSAGE Makefile PLIST distinfo
>       pkgsrc/www/nginx-devel/files: nginx.sh
>       pkgsrc/www/nginx-devel/patches: patch-aa patch-ab
> 
> Log Message:
> Initial import of nginx-devel, version 1.3.13, into the NetBSD Packages
> Collection.
> 
> nginx (pronounced "engine X") is a lightweight web (HTTP) server/reverse proxy
> and mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy written by 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 nginx serves or proxies about 4% of all Internet virtual
> hosts, although Netcraft shows much less percent.
> 
> The sources are licensed under a BSD-like license.

I thought I'd share some more recent figures.

According to:

        
http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-servers/nginx-overtakes-microsoft-no-2-web-server-183079

nginx is now the second most popular web server, although those figures are a 
year
old (Jan 4th 2012).

Netcraft puts nginx in 3rd place across all domains, although apache
and IIS share continues to fall, while nginx is rising:

        
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/02/01/february-2013-web-server-survey.html

and for active sites, nginx is in 2nd place ahead of IIS:

Developer       January 2013    Percent February 2013   Percent Change
Apache          103,682,570     55.50%  101,558,682     54.92%  -0.58
nginx           22,227,083      11.90%  21,970,144      11.88%  -0.02
Microsoft       21,211,254      11.35%  21,484,151      11.62%  0.26
Google          15,022,947      8.04%   14,976,221      8.10%   0.06

I also know that nginx is being used to shift a huge volume of bits, rather
than just number of active sites. See, for example,

        https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software

(and I have to declare an interest here, I work for them).

Regards,
Alistair