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. was founded in July 2011 by Igor Sysoev, Chief Architect of the nginx web server, to provide commercial products and support for nginx.
Sysoev is best known as the creator and developer of nginx (pronounced Engine X), a HTTP, reverse proxy, and e-mail proxy server.
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Igor Sysoev (Russian: Игорь Сысоев) is the creator and developer of the nginx Web server and founder of NGINX, Inc..
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.