Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderFor me and this big PHP application of ours, switching from just Apache to nginx in front of Apache for PHP execution and serving the rest directly with nginx was the one optimization that brought the best bang for the buck over all the years. Memory usage went down drastically and response times got much better. Additionally, I personally much prefer the syntax of the nginx configuration file (though this really is a matter of taste) and it generally feels…
This is incredible news. Congratulations to Igor and the rest of the nginx team. Does anyone know if the model of open-source with a consulting/premium support company behind it works? I've paid 10gen for MongoDB assistance before, so I know there has to be some legitimacy behind the model. And, you know, MySQL.
Slightly OT: Does anyone know if packages for Ubuntu 14.04 are coming soon? We're using the official (mainline) repository[1] on Ubuntu 12.04, but Trusty doesn't seem to be supported yet. I've always preferred the official repository because I didn't want to start compiling nginx just for stuff like SPDY support. [1]: http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html
As a tip to anyone using nginx to proxy websockets: make sure you increase the proxy read timeout for that connection. Otherwise, nginx will drop the (active) connection much sooner than you'd otherwise expect.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 4
- Total points
- 1712
- Total comments
- 410
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-04-12 | Nginx 1.0.0 is outFirst breakout · Best thread | Jim_Neath | 549 | 75 |
| 2011-07-18 | Nginx established as a company | rplnt | 463 | 71 |
| 2013-03-26 | Nginx-1.3.15 has been released, featuring experimental SPDY module | spindritf | 2 | 0 |
| 2013-03-26 | Nginx-1.3.15 development version released, featuring experimental SPDY module | newman314 | 95 | 19 |
| 2013-04-24 | Nginx-1.4.0 stable version has been released | spindritf | 210 | 71 |
| 2013-04-26 | Nginx Source code repository switched to Mercurial | dancric | 5 | 1 |
| 2014-04-24 | Nginx 1.6.0 stable releasedHall induction | Usu | 233 | 109 |
| 2015-04-28 | Nginx-1.9.0 mainline version has been released | Jahak | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-09-23 | Nginx 1.9.5 ships with HTTP/2.0 support | ck2 | 11 | 0 |
| 2018-04-25 | Nginx-1.14.0 stable version has been releasedLatest 20+ point return | collinmanderson | 132 | 64 |
| 2021-04-21 | Nginx 1.20.0 Released | thefilmore | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-08-14 | Nginx-1.26.2 / Nginx-1.27.1 (dev) released with a CVE-2024-7347 fix | neustradamus | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-04-23 | Nginx 1.28.0 has been released | neustradamus | 4 | 0 |