Apache HTTP is still leading in web server market share but looks like Nginx is going to take over pretty soon. Nginx is known for its performance and leading in top 10K and 100K sites. Nginx is an open source web server, and it’s fantastic. It integrates well with many backends, application servers. If you…
One of you asked this. I love the feedback! It gives me an idea of what to write. Previously, I explained how to configure the Apache HTTP server with HTTPOnly and Secure flag, and in this article, I’ll talk about doing the same thing on Nginx web server. Having HTTPOnly and Secure in HTTP response…
IBM WAS (WebSphere Application Server) usually go with IBM HTTP Server, However; then this quick guide will help you. IHS is based on Apache HTTP server, and it works, but when it comes to performance, then nothing beat Nginx web server. Nginx market share is gradually increasing in top million busiest sites. Let’s see what…
HTTP/2 is the second major version HTTP protocol released in 2015. Since launch, around 11% of website support HTTP/2. It got many features like: HTTP Header Compression Push technologies Load page elements in parallel over a single TCP connection Binary protocol Reduce latency Demo by AKAMAI shows HTTP/2 is approximately two times faster than HTTP/1.1 Did…
Most of the CDN like Cloudflare, SUCURI, AKAMAI let you enable IPv6 from their edge network. However, if you are not using CDN that provides IPv6 and needs to enable your website, then here is how you can do it. IPv6 has a performance advantage over IPv4. It can help to decrease the page load…
Setting up a web application in the cloud is always fun and exciting. Recently, I launched a Geekflare Tools tool, which is hosted in AWS behind Cloudflare. I am using the AWS application load balancer and Nginx as a web server. After making life, I went to see the access.log and noticed all requests were…
Speed up Node.js, Socket.io web application load time by leveraging Nginx to serve static files Node.js is an excellent JavaScript runtime environment, which you can use to serve entire web assets (static+dynamic) from it. If you are working on a small, experimental project then probably it’s ok, however, if response time is concerned then you…
Monitoring webserver is essential to see what’s happening on your website. Lately, I was looking for some sort of solution and came across ngxtop, which helps you to monitor various metrics, including the following. Current active request Total request counts summary Total request by status code (2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx) Average byte sent Top remote…
If you were securing Nginx with Mod Security, then you would like to have OWASP core rule set (CRS) activated to protect from following threats. HTTP protocol violation protection Common web attacks Bots, crawlers, malicious activity protection Trojan protection Information leakage protection Cross Site Scripting attacks SQL injection attacks Do you agree? In my previous…
Nginx web server is used on more than 30% of website worldwide and growing. Considering the increase in online web threats, one the challenge for web engineer is to well aware of hardening and securing Nginx. Nginx is well-known for its performance and lightweight web server/proxy and used on many busiest sites. Pinterest.com Reddit.com WordPress.com Stackoverflow.com…
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