The Cool Couple, Nginx and Varnish

Nginx Nginx is entering a new phase in its business lifecycle, as it moves from the “free open source business model” to the “open source and commercial business model”. Nginx web acceleration software powers countless of global brands including Facebook.

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July Web Server Market Share

In July 2014, there were 996M sites, almost breaking through the 1B mark. Microsoft IIS has overcome Apache to take the #1 spot, and is now the market leader. However, this number represents total sites that includes active and non-active

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Web Server Market Share for March 2014

In March 2014, there were 919,533,715 websites. Apache continues to lead the market in the number of websites running its web server software, followed by Microsoft and nginx. The latest version of nginx now supports SPDY 3.1. The SPDY network

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Nginx Pricing Model: Part 2

Nginx is on a quest to find the perfect pricing model. If they price too high, prospects turn elsewhere, if it’s too low, Nginx leaves money on the table, that comes in very handy for a startup. At first glance,

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Nginx Pricing Model: Part 1

Nginx, the young startup with a dozen employees is on mission to become the next Red Hat. It’s in the midst of creating a robust business model, sales model, value proposition, and pricing strategy. As a young company, Nginx is

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Cool Startup: Nginx

Nginx, based in San Francisco CA, started in 2002 and has raised $13M in funding. They currently have 15 employees, with plans to grow to 50, by the end of 2014. Nginx develops open source web server & caching software,

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