NGINX Tutorial for Beginners (NEW) – Learn for FREE !
If you are preparing for any of the Linux Certification training, or Cloud computing certification training, you will be seeing this term ‘Nginx’ in your exam objectives. What exactly is Nginx? and What it does – We are going to explore more in this topic now. This Nginx tutorial for beginners, helps you to understand […]
NGINX tutorial | The basic commands and configurations
In our basic article, we summarized what nginx is, as well as how to install and set it up on your system. In the following tutorial, we provide you with an overview of the basic commands and configuration options of the modern web server software. Contents The central control unit: nginx.conf Manage processes and adopt […]
Nginx Tutorial #1: Basic Concepts
IntroductionHello! Sharing is caring, so we’d love to share another piece of knowledge with you. We prepared a three-part nginx tutorial. If you already know something about nginx, or if you’d just like to expand your experience and understanding – this is the perfect place for you! We will tell you how nginx works, going […]
The NGINX Handbook – Learn NGINX for Beginners
A young Russian developer named Igor Sysoev was frustrated by older web servers’ inability to handle more than 10 thousand concurrent requests. This is a problem referred to as the C10k problem. As an answer to this, he started working on a new web server back in 2002. NGINX was first released to the public […]
Configure Lighttpd
Lighttpd or Lighty is a free and open-source web server developed for high-performance environments. Lighttpd server is lightweight, high-speed, and secure. It is mainly provided as an alternative to web servers such as Apache because it consumes very few resources such as CPU and memory. Lighttpd can handle more than 10000 parallel connections on a […]
How to install Lighttpd web server on Ubuntu 18.04
Lighttpd is an open source web server known for its excellent performance on many environments. Thanks to the low hardware requirements, it manages high data traffic even on poorly performing systems. This tutorial provides a step by step explanation of how to install and configure Lighttpd on Ubuntu 18.04 and on how to maximize its […]
Installing and configuring lighttpd webserver
lighttpd is a web server for UNIX/Linux and Windows operating systems. It is an alternative to Apache web server. It is also called Lighty. Advertisement It is designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. Its low memory footprint (compared to other web servers), light CPU load and its […]
How to Set Up Lighttpd Web Server on Ubuntu 18.04
Lighttpd is a free, open-source, and high-performance web server designed for speed-critical environments. It is lightweight, secure, fast, and consumes very few resources compared to other web servers. Lighttpd also supports FastCGI, CGI, Output-Compression, Auth and URL-Rewriting, which makes it the perfect web server. Lighttpd can handle up to 10000 connections in parallel on a […]
Complete Setup Tutorial For Lighttpd, A Lightweight Web Server
There is a web server that is very conservative in its resource usage and memory footprint. That server is known as lighttpd (pronounced ‘lighty’). Setting one lighttpd instance can be a bit tricky, so this tutorial serves as a clear guide on how to properly configure a lighttpd server on Linux. Understanding the configuration file for […]
What Is Apache? An In-Depth Overview of Apache Web Server
Apache is one of the go-to web servers for website owners, developers, and even hosting providers, dominating the market share by 33% across all websites. In Hostinger, for instance, our hosting infrastructure runs on Litespeed, another popular web server. This particular setup greatly improves the strengths of both servers, allowing us to serve optimum performance […]