Here is a comparison between Apache Traffic Server and Nginx. Each platform has a cult following. The bottom line, the best platform depends on the use case. Here is the difference between the two, according to ChatGPT. In a minimum
According to various reports, Russian police have raided the Moscow office of Nginx, arresting, detaining, and interrogating the co-founders of the company, then releasing them. Nginx is a popular software used by hundreds of millions of websites and infrastructure companies
Earlier this month, NGINX released the latest version of its flagship software, NGINX Plus R15, and announced the upcoming launches of NGINX Unit 1.0 and NGINX Controller R1. The NGINX application platform powers load balancers, microservices and API gateways. These
NGINX has announced its new Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform to strengthen its existing suite of application delivery tools. The WAF is used on the popular ModSecurity open source software, which is already used by over a million websites. In
Expedia uses NGINX Plus for cloud migration at scale and routing traffic through its front door. Over the years, Expedia has configured NGINX based on three pillars of cloud migration. According to Dave Drinkle, Senior Software Engineer at Expedia, the
CacheFly launched in 2005 as a throughput-dedicated network built on a mix of proprietary and open source solutions. It can handle large, 100 TB+ caches, operates in over 80 countries, and is currently the highest throughput CDN in the world.
Varnish Software has rolled out Varnish Extend, a private do-it-yourself CDN, in collaboration with Cedexis, which monitors and optimizes web performance across data centers, CDNs, and clouds. It is a pre-packaged product that comes bundled with Varnish Plus, Varnish Software
NGINX Plus is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) via AWS Cloud Quickstart, and can be accessed on the AWS Community Quick Starts landing page and the AWS Quickstart Github repository.
Varnish Software Releases Open Source “Hitch” for SSL Termination Varnish doesn’t natively support TLS/SSL, so it has turned to a dedicated TLS terminator to end those connections. Hitch is a standalone piece of software provided by Varnish Software, which it
Instart Logic Introduces A Bot Mitigation Service Instart Logic, a next-generation pure-play Application Delivery Network has introduced a bot mitigation service called “Bot or Not”. The Bot or Not is part of Instart Logic’s security offering, which uses behavioral analysis
NGINX Prepares for the IoT with UDP Load Balancing User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is used by many IoT devices, is now supported by NGINX’s load balancing engine. NGINX works as an application delivery platform, and as the proliferation of
Apache Traffic Server is high performance web proxy-caching server known for its use by Yahoo!, processing over 30,000 requests per second and serving more than 30 billion web objects a day across the Yahoo! network. Since its inception as an
When it comes to web server software, Nginx has quickly been closing the gap set by rival Apache with an estimated 21% of the top one million busiest websites on the Internet today using Nginx software. Nginx performs all the
When building a CDN, companies have several options in terms of choosing an open source caching platform to help deliver their content to users with speed, security and reliability. While none of these proxy servers can be exclusively titled a
Measuring innovation within the Content Delivery Infrastructure Ecosystem is a very difficult task. Therefore, we’ll give it a shot. We created a diagram that classifies companies into categories of innovation, with # 1 being the most innovative. The best way
