Tag NGINX

Product and technology, Various

NGINX vs Apache – Which Is the Best Web Server in 2023?

NGINX vs Apache – which server is superior? That’s not an easy question to answer. These are two of the world’s top open-source internet services and handle over 50% of global web traffic. Both NGINX and Apache are made to…

Elvis Plesky
April 20, 2023
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Various

NGINX Performance Tuning Tips

NGINX is an open-source, free web server used for a wide range of topics including mail proxy, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP caching. Solution provides a high standard of performance with low weight, and while it is still fairly…

Elvis Plesky
December 20, 2022

Various

Litespeed vs NGINX

In a series of benchmarking tests, LiteSpeed’s HTTP/3 implementation demonstrated higher performance than that of the hybrid NGINX Overall, LiteSpeed managed to transfer resources faster, demonstrate stronger scaling, and utilized less CPU & memory in the process. LiteSpeed bettered NGINX…

Elvis Plesky
February 24, 2021
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NGINX Configuration Guide

NGINX is a web server designed for use cases involving high volumes of traffic. It’s a popular, lightweight, high-performance solution. One of its many impressive features is that it can serve static content (media files, HTML) efficiently. NGINX utilizes an…

Elvis Plesky
February 24, 2021

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Why Do You Need PHP FastCGI Process Manager?

PHP-FPM (an acronym of FastCGI Process Manager) is a hugely-popular alternative PHP (Hypertext Processor) FastCGI implementation. As you may or may not know, PHP is one of the biggest open-source software programming languages utilized online. It features heavily in web…

Elvis Plesky
November 3, 2020
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Guides, Product and technology

Enable NGINX-only Hosting for Your Domain

NGINX is an HTTP and reverse proxy server that many small and medium-sized websites love using. Mostly because of its sleek design and high performance fine-tuning for difficult conditions. It’s no surprise that lots of users are switching from Apache…

Elvis Plesky
January 13, 2020
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What is LAMP? LAMP stack basics to get you up and running fast

The LAMP stack has nothing to do with lighting, but it’s still a pretty bright idea (sorry, couldn’t resist!) It underpins many of the world’s most widespread open source web apps, like WordPress and Drupal, but its history goes back…

Elvis Plesky
May 16, 2019

Guides, Security alerts

How to Secure Nginx Against Malicious Bots

Protective measures for a server are very important and there are several ways to protect your websites and apps from malicious bots. We’ll be looking at different bots and how they operate, and how you can use Plesk’s security measures…

Product and technology

My Plesk User Experience (2): Lessons learned from testing Plesk Onyx

My Plesk user experience 2 - Plesk Onyx testing and analysis

So Plesk Onyx came along and it had implemented NGINX caching. Naturally I was curious and removed all my customizations. Then I started to compare the website performance with the inbuilt NGINX caching, other caching methods, and the Speed Kit…

Igor G
January 30, 2019
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Product and technology

My Plesk User Experience (1): Easy Starts and Common Issues

Plesk User Experience While Testing Plesk Onyx

Plesk first crossed my path when it came packaged with web hosting acquired from a Russian provider. At the time it was version 12.0, but I never paid any attention to it until I discovered that part of its service…