NGINX is a free, open source, high-performance HTTP web server that can perform the following functions:
- Reverse Proxy
- Load Balancer for HTTP, TCP and UDP Traffic;
- Mail Proxy Server.
NGINX is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. Benchmarks have shown NGINX to out perform other lightweight web servers and proxies, even some that are also considered lightweight. ones.