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zeeone on March 22, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: lighttpd or nginx for a low grade server?

Many thanks for all answers so far!

I talked to a Ukrainian programmer and a friend of mine, who said he knew the guy who programmed nginx. He said that nginx was designed as a load balancer for Apache. I've been reading its docs for two days now and I can't find anything like that, but then again most of the docs are in Russian. Am I missing something? Is nginx a stand alone server or an addition to Apache?

anotherjesse on March 23, 2009 | [–]

English Docs are here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Main - the site used to be wiki.codemongers.com but it is now under nginx.org

moonpolysoft on March 22, 2009 | [–]

It's standalone. Nginx really shines as a reverse proxy, but it has an fcgi module that can be used to do that as well.

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