Apps Built with Nginx

Nginx is quietly present in front of a large share of the products on this site. It terminates TLS, serves static files efficiently, reverse-proxies application servers, balances load and handles caching, all with low memory use, which is exactly what you want on the modest instances most teams here actually run. That efficiency is the recurring theme: getting more out of a small server directly reduces a dollar-denominated bill. Its configuration is famously terse and unforgiving, but it is also extremely well documented and stable across years, so knowledge learned once keeps paying. Common local uses include rate limiting to protect an API, gzip and Brotli compression to reduce bandwidth for users paying per megabyte, and caching responses to survive traffic spikes. Browse the products using Nginx below.