The following article is all about how to compile and install the blazing fast HTTP server known as Nginx.
So what exactly is Nginx?
It is lightweight, free, open-source and high-performance HTTP server, which, unlike most other HTTP servers, does not rely on threaded handling of the requests but instead, uses a much more scalable and robust event driven (asynchronous) architecture.
This uses a very small and predictable amount of memory under heavy load.