Nginx

Nginx is a high-performance HTTP server, reverse proxy, and load balancer known for its asynchronous event-driven architecture and native HTTP/3 support.

When to Use

• High-Performance HTTP Reverse Proxy & Web Server: Serving millions of requests per second with an asynchronous event-driven architecture.
• SSL/TLS Termination & HTTP/2/HTTP/3: Offloading cryptographic handshakes and managing Let's Encrypt certificates.
• Upstream Load Balancing & Microservice Routing: Distributing traffic across backend clusters with keepalive connection pools.
• Rate Limiting & DDoS Defense: Enforcing token-bucket rate limits (limit_req_zone) per IP address.

Quick Start

# nginx.conf
server {
    listen 443 quic reuseport;
    listen 443 ssl;
    http2 on;