NginX Basic Features

NginX basic Info:

• Open source Web server
• A reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, 
• A strong focus on high concurrency,
• Performance and low memory usage.
• Can serve as a software load balancer.
• Written in C.

Nginx uses an asynchronous event-driven approach to handling requests which can provide more predictable performance under high loads,
in contrast to the Apache HTTP server model that defaults to a threaded or process-oriented approach to handling requests.
  Ability to handle more than 10000 simultaneous connections with a low memory footprint (~2.5 MB per 10k inactive HTTP keep-alive connections)

Few

•   Handling of static files, index files, and auto-indexing
•   Reverse proxy with caching
•   Load balancing
•   Fault tolerance
•   TLS/SSL with SNI support
•   FastCGI, SCGI, uwsgi support with caching
•   Name- and IP-based virtual servers
•   FLV streaming
•   MP4 streaming[12]
•   Web page access authentication
•   gzip compression
•   URL rewriting
•   Custom logging
•   Response rate and concurrent requests limiting
•   Server Side Includes
•   IP-based geolocation
•   WebDAV
•   XSLT data processing