What is nginx

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Installing Nginx (read "Engine-X") on Ubuntu Server is the gold standard for Web Infrastructure because it is light, fast and flexible.

Here are some of the main benefits you can get from using Nginx:

1. Becoming a high-performance Web Server

Nginx is designed to handle many concurrent connections using significantly fewer resources (RAM / CPU) than Apache. It is very suitable for:

Transmission of Static Content such as Images, CSS, JavaScript is extremely fast.

It supports enormous traffic, with the server machine also running stationary.

2. Reverse Proxy (Smart Outpost)

This is the most popular feature. Nginx can act as an "outpost," receive requests from the Internet and then forward them to the application server behind it (such as Node.js, Python, PHP).

Benefits: Helps hide backyard complexity and increase security because the User doesn't talk directly to App Server.

3.Load Balancer (Workload Distribution)

If you have multiple servers, Nginx can help distribute Traffic to machines equally to prevent one from overworking.

4.SSL Termination (Safety Management)

Instead of having your application decode HTTPS itself every time, you can give this function to Nginx.

It makes it easy to manage Certificates (such as Let's Encrypt) in one place.

Reduce the processing load of the main application.

5. Ease of installation on Ubuntu

Because Ubuntu is a highly popular operating system, installing Nginx is easy to do with only a few commands:

Bash

Sudo apt update

Sudo apt install nginx

And there is a very large community. If you are addicted to a problem, you can find a solution in Ubuntu almost immediately.

In a nutshell: If you want your website or API to be "fast, stable and supported by a lot of people," Nginx is the answer.