What is NGINX? Why to use it for a Website?
NGINX is an open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. Initially is was started as a web server which is designed for maximum performance and stability. In NGINX it provides a software-based application delivery platform that load balances HTTP and TCP applications at a fraction of the cost of hardware solutions thus it allows organizations to maximize the availability and reliability of their sites and applications, and minimize disappointed customers and lost revenue. The main goal of creating NGINX was to create the fastest web server around, and maintaining that excellence is still a central goal of the project. Moreover NGINX is consistently beating Apache and other servers in benchmarks measuring web server performance. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP server...