Comments on: Nginx Powers Hulu.com ?

By: Radovan

Radovan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:40:45 +0000

WordPress.com runs on nginx.

http://wiki.nginx.org/Main

By: James

James — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:18:29 +0000

Nginx ftw!!!

By: bigbigwatch

bigbigwatch — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:48:27 +0000

http://www.bigbigwatch.com

By: visualizeus » Some techie details on the visualizeus backend

visualizeus » Some techie details on the visualizeus backend — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:13:34 +0000

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By: peter

peter — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:56:37 +0000

Hehe, What a recommendation.

hulu.com is not large in terms of traffic yet but this is huge in terms of investments. I mainly meant this.

By: slavi

slavi — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:57:28 +0000

The biggest site which uses nginx (nginx/0.5.30) is youporn.com, #40 at Alexa (see http://static.youporn.com/css/)
Hulu is way below.

By: Alexey Kovyrin

Alexey Kovyrin — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:19:16 +0000

As for module development – I just want to mention this page, which looks pretty fine for me, but honestly speaking, I’ve developed modules for nginx and lighttpd long time ago and can’t count my experience valuable in this question.

Anyways, both servers are great and it is nice to have such a great tools when we work on large projects.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:50:12 +0000

Thomas,

Looking at project timeline http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/timeline Jan is doing some work. Though I believe it is now getting less attention than before. I think MySQL Proxy is what excites Jan now and as this is also priority for Jan’s employer (MySQL AB) we see what we see.

Though I would say 1.4.18 seems to work good on many sites we deal with, so I guess the bugs are in the niche areas.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:39:05 +0000

Alexey,

The documentation which I find hard to find for Nginx is module development. lighttpd has decent documentation and examples so development of the modules is easy. We have already one running in production with ClickAider and one in development.

I’m pretty agnostic these days and both servers seems to be working well and suitable for the task. For English speaking customers I prefer to advice lighttpd because it has larger english speaking community while for Russian I would use nginx.

By: thomas

thomas — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:00:56 +0000

and where is lighttpd-development these days?
the buglist is growing and not much happening there in commits.
I’d say if Jan isn’t doing development then no one else is. So the “only one developer” argument doesn’t count .