April 25th, 2013

Group Led By Google Wants More Speed On The Web, Releases Nginx PageSpeed Module In Beta

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Google really cares about the web being faster. In 2010 it led a group of contributors in releasing a module for Apache web servers called PageSpeed. Today, the same group has released a version for Nginx, an alternative to Apache, which is also open source and used by massively trafficked sites like Netflix, Hulu, Pinterest, Airbnb, WordPress.com, Zynga, Zappos and GitHub. In alpha testing… → Read More

June 15th, 2012

Making The Web Faster: CloudFlare Adds Support For Google’s SPDY Protocol

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CloudFlare, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google’s SPDY protocol on its network. For the time being, this is just a beta test (you can sign up here), but the company will likely roll this feature out to all of its paying users later this year. → Read More

October 11th, 2011

Russian Nginx raises $3 million from international investors

Russian company Nginx raised $3 million from German BV Capital, Russian Runa Capital and MSD Capital, Michael Dell‘s venture fund, as reported by RBK Daily. Founded by Russian engineer Igor Sysoev 10 years ago, Nginx develops and maintains an open source Unix-based web and mail proxy server for large scale, fast paced, content heavy web sites. TechCrunch, Facebook, Groupon and WordPress.org… → Read More

October 11th, 2011

Russian Nginx Raises $3 Million From International Investors

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Russian company Nginx has raised $3 million from German BV Capital, Russian Runa Capital and MSD Capital, Michael Dell‘s venture fund, as reported by RBK Daily.

Founded by Russian engineer Igor Sysoev 10 years ago, Nginx develops and maintains an open source Unix-based web and mail proxy server for large scale, fast paced, content heavy web sites. TechCrunch, Facebook, Groupon and → Read More