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2 unusual facts about nginx


MaxCDN

MaxCDN's Nginx servers are located in Europe, North America and Asia; MaxCDN employs Anycast stateless routing for one-to-nearest content delivery over multiple 10 Gbit/s connections.

NGINX, Inc.

NGINX, Inc. was founded in July 2011 by Igor Sysoev, Chief Architect of the nginx web server, to provide commercial products and support for nginx.


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Igor Sysoev

Sysoev is best known as the creator and developer of nginx (pronounced Engine X), a HTTP, reverse proxy, and e-mail proxy server.

Igor Sysoev (Russian: Игорь Сысоев) is the creator and developer of the nginx Web server and founder of NGINX, Inc..

SMTP proxy

Because SMTP Proxies can be implemented using lighter-weight programming techniques such as asynchronous IO (for example nginx, Node.js, Netty and Libevent), thousands of connections can be juggled using the same resources as a much smaller number of connections in the context of a full-blown store and forward email server.


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