Using Nginx in Mac OS X

Introduction

Nginx is a open source quite lightweight HTTP server which is written by Russian Igor Sysoev, the pronunciation is “engine X”. It’s a high performance HTTP and reverse proxy server, and also it is a IMAP/POP3/SMTP proxy server。

There are lots of website using Nginx in China, like Sina, Tencent, 163, Discuz and so on. The Nginx has a very high performance due to event driven way, and also it is a high performance reverse proxy, load balancing.