Why do so many people use NGINX?

TheBigBrother , 14 hours ago (edited 13 hours ago)

You want to access your server under CG-NAT from the outside or what is the point??

Findmysec OP , 5 hours ago

You can do that with Wireguard and NAT.

brygphilomena , 4 hours ago

I learned nginx when I was hosting websites. I had it set up and running when it was time to add reverse proxies into my setup. It didn’t take much more from the virtual hosts I was already using.

Now, I don’t host many individual sites anymore and haproxy has a plugin on my firewall for the handful of services I run now.

s38b35M5 , 5 hours ago

I’m reminded of this blog/article on Ars about ripping out OLS and reverting to NGINX. There’s some good info there, and also links to other of his posts on the subject and references. Good read.

rglullis , 5 hours ago

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d00phy , 7 hours ago

I use nginx & docker-proxy. Because the model I copied used that setup. Having messed with it a bit, I’m understanding it more and more. Before that, the last time I messed with a web server (Apache), nginx wasn’t around. Lately, I’ve seen a similar docker setup to mine that doesn’t use docker-proxy. If I find time, I’ll probably play with that some on my dev rig.

thebardingreen , 8 hours ago

As a security professional, what finally got me to move from Apache to NGINX was OpenResty.

I sometimes still put Apache behind it, depending on my goals.

levitte , 12 hours ago

@Findmysec
Contrary to most, I never made the Apache-to-nginx switch. I actually don't find nginx that much easier to configure, so the effort of rewriting all my templates was too high.

Caddy is a different story. I can replace swathes of configuration lines with just two? And get letsencrypt automatically without having to give it a single thought? Gimme!

Findmysec OP , 5 hours ago

Indeed, I don’t find NGINX that easy to configure either