Two years ago I was hired by a startup company in Singapore as an external consultant to test thoroughly a combination of proposed settings for NGINX. They wanted to release their product having a rock-solid and well performing system. Well, who doesn’t?
Soon after I started with my assignment I was able to understand that NGINX is a web server on steroids. I would say that its main functionality is serving static files via http or https protocols but it has a bunch of other amazing features which make it unique because of the incredible performance that it is able to pull off.
That is the time when I absolutely fell in love with NGINX. Some of the results from my tests showed NGINX consuming several thousand time less memory than the world’s most popular web server to date: Apache.
A few weeks after I realized how beneficial NGINX would be for a web hosting provider where resource utilization is absolutely key. A system that is able to carry thousands of times more load would be just fantastic. It is important to understand as well that this is not just better for the provider; it also is a great advantage for the client. Today’s hosting provider scene is packed with companies that base their offer in quantity, not quality. Keeping similar users per machine ratios as any other traditional hosting should be thousands times faster. So let’s assume that it is only a few times faster since the world is not perfect.
So I began looking for NGINX based shared web hosting providers. But I did not find any. That is the time we started conceptualizing Leanservers.
Today Leanservers is truly a fast and reliable NGINX based web hosting. Just the way we thought it should be. We had an idea and removed the fat.
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