I've been using nginx for a very long time, but I am getting a bit nervous about it. As an example, the nginx Plus feature of "Application health checks" has me concerned. This is the feature that performs an HTTP request on a backend server to determine if it is healthy.<p>That's such a simple and necessary feature of any reverse proxy that it should obviously be included in the free version.<p>So, are they going to avoid ever implementing it in the free version? Would they turn away patches to add that functionality? I know there was an open source patch that never made it in, but I don't know why.<p>And what about staging/dev environments? Do you really have to pay full price to get basic features for internal testing servers?
this is getting ridiculous, first mongo.db next nginx.<p>HEADLINES FROM NEXT WEEK:<p><i>cat</i> raises $750M at valuation of $25B<p>The venerable gnu shell program 'cat', which is an integral part of 70 million developers' toolchains and helps power shell scripts on 70% of the world's Internet servers, has completed raising a seed round of $750M at a valuation of $25B.<p>"We could have raised more", said Richard Stallman, "but by only parting with 3.3% we are leaving ourselves room to grow. More and more people are starting to use Gnu/GNU utilities, and our eventual market base is 7 billion people. We have no plans to monetize."
I wonder how this impact open source nginx... I guess they will rather keep adding new things to Plus.<p>Seems less open source friendly business model than Trolltech (Qt), Red Hat, MySQL...
"NGINX is now used by 16% of all Web sites"<p>I wonder how much traffic are generated by this 16%? I would assume the traffic will be more than 16%, probably above 50%.
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I know that they plan to add dynamically loaded module support in a future release. As long as they don't plan to keep that feature as an Nginx Plus feature then I don't see much to be concerned about.<p>As it stands right now, a lot of users aren't able to make use of 3rd party modules because of the overhead (recompiling). Once dynamic modules are supported the community should be able to fill in the most desired features.
Nginx Inc without mr. Sysoev is just a support company.)<p>There were rumors that he had plans to rewrite big parts of the server, so-called nginx2. If this Nginx Plus is what they would do instead, that is pity.<p>In my humble opinion, while nginx/core is brilliant the module system is over-engineered and too complicated, and there are lot of room for improvements.