This is an IIS replacement for Windows Server users. If you prefer to run an alternative server software nginx is a good replacement. More secure than Apache.
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev. For a long time, it has been running on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Yandex, Mail.Ru, VK, and Rambler. Here are some of the success stories: Dropbox, Netflix, FastMail.FM.
The sources and documentation are distributed under the 2-clause BSD-like license.
Commercial support is available from F5, Inc.
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev. For a long time, it has been running on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Yandex, Mail.Ru, VK, and Rambler. Here are some of the success stories: Dropbox, Netflix, FastMail.FM.
The sources and documentation are distributed under the 2-clause BSD-like license.
Commercial support is available from F5, Inc.
Basic HTTP server features
- Serving static and index files, autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
- Accelerated reverse proxying with caching; load balancing and fault tolerance;
- Accelerated support with caching of FastCGI, uwsgi, SCGI, and memcached servers; load balancing and fault tolerance;
- Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, XSLT, SSI, and image transformation filter. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by proxied or FastCGI/uwsgi/SCGI servers;
- SSL and TLS SNI support;
- Support for HTTP/2 with weighted and dependency-based prioritization;
- Support for HTTP/3.
