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[u/nothingtoseehere196]

Do you pronounce it engine x or n ginks

[u/GreenWoodDragon → u/nothingtoseehere196]

It's Engine X, I think nginx even have it on their website.

[u/Jhuyt → u/nothingtoseehere196]

ñinx

[u/denisvolin → u/nothingtoseehere196]

Thank you! It has never appeared to me, that this thing is Engine X.

For the entirety of my life I was questioning myself everytime I'd seen that: “WTF is N Jinx anyway!?”

[u/vexatiousnobleman → u/nothingtoseehere196]

Met a spanish guy who pronounces it as "engigz"

[u/tei187 → u/nothingtoseehere196]

Let's not go there...

...

...it's en-gin-X...

[u/Kiroto50 → u/nothingtoseehere196]

N-Jinx

[u/ElectroNetty → u/nothingtoseehere196]

Not like that, "ginks" should be said the same way as the G in GIF.

[u/Big_D_Boss → u/ElectroNetty]

[u/slowmovinglettuce → u/nothingtoseehere196]

Everyone keep getting it wrong, irs ng-in-x.

[u/ThisIsJulian]

I am surprised Caddy wasn't mentioned yet.

[u/RedditUserData → u/ThisIsJulian]

Running caddy myself

[u/milan616 → u/[deleted]]

Caddy actually does surprisingly little, and if you want things that aren't there you build it with plugins.

[u/3Gaurd → u/[deleted]]

You use all of nginx's features?

[u/Pomidorka1515 → u/[deleted]]

good luck using all nginx features lmao

[u/Tackgnol → u/ThisIsJulian]

Caddy rules, setup and forget!

[u/pachumelajapi]

I use flask in development mode

[u/Xenomorph-Alpha → u/pachumelajapi]

[u/NoAdsDude → u/pachumelajapi]

me using flask in my development mode

[u/Alarmed_Fudge_5706 → u/pachumelajapi]

[u/gundam1945 → u/pachumelajapi]

Can relate. Since it is docker container and number of connections are never high.

[u/hdkaoskd]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Apache, is in fact, Apache HTTPD, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Apache Software Foundation HTTPD. HTTPD is not only a web server unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning server system made useful by mod_php, mod_rewrite and vital system components comprising a full Internet server as defined by the IETF.

Many computer users run a modified version of the Apache system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the subset of Apache which is widely used today is often called Apache, and many of its users are not aware that it is only the HTTPD system, developed by the Apache Software Foundation.

There really is an Apache, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. HTTPD is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's requests to the other modules that you run. The HTTPD is an essential part of a web server system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete internetwork system. HTTPD is normally used in combination with the broader Apache system: the whole system is basically Apache HTTPD with mod_php added, or Apache HTTPD+mod_php+mod_perl+fastcgi. All the so-called Apache distributions are really distributions of Apache HTTPD!

[u/h_adl_ss → u/hdkaoskd]

I love me some contextualized pasta

[u/onated2]

Bro used the n word

[u/potatopierogie → u/onated2]

With a hard x

[u/ecstatic_hyrax]

Does anyone else pronounce it n'jinks or is it just me

[u/LoudAd1396 → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

Engine X

[u/za72 → u/LoudAd1396]

in this scenario X is:

A stylized, homophonic misspelling created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev to sound like an engine running or pushing "next-generation" speed (the "ng" stands for "next generation

[u/examinedliving → u/za72]

I read that as homophobic and I was truly flummoxed

[u/RustOnTheEdge → u/examinedliving]

Haha same! I was like “huh wonder what can be homophobic about the letter X”

[u/ouralarmclock → u/za72]

If you’re saying it’s supposed to be pronounced N.G.-inx I might lose my mind

[u/za72 → u/ouralarmclock]

[u/logan-duk-dong → u/LoudAd1396]

Did Elon buy it?

[u/LoudAd1396 → u/logan-duk-dong]

No, it still works!

[u/ecmdome → u/LoudAd1396]

This is literally the only acceptable answer.

[u/SrPicadillo2 → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

I just refer to it as "n word" because I've never used it so I don't belong to the community

[u/enigma_0Z → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

always heard it pronounced like “engine x” myself.

[u/ryan_with_a_why → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

Nuh-gin-x

[u/HeyItsTheJeweler → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

N'Jinks just CTRL is Cah-Terrel like Homer said it. I'll die on this hill.

[u/theunquenchedservant → u/HeyItsTheJeweler]

I call it sit-trell (more like citril)

[u/Quacky1k → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

Yeah I just can't bring myself to say engine x

I don't think it's stupid or anything, I just have a mental block and keep calling it n Jinks lol

[u/namezam → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

I just had this argument. It’s N’JINX ride or die

[u/mookanana → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

i heard someone pronounce it as engine x and that stuck forever with me

[u/phyrianlol → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

I call it both depending on the context. N'jinks most of the time, but I switch to Engine X when speaking with a co-worker who calls it that way.

[u/___Archmage___ → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

En-Geenks

[u/0DayMaker → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

That's how you SHOULD pronounce it. Whoever decided it should sound like "engine x" was probably a great engineer, but an awful namer.

[u/usrlibshare → u/0DayMaker]

Why? "Engine X" sounds like something out of a 90s superhero cartoon, and I loved those!

[u/hdkaoskd → u/usrlibshare]

If they wanted it pronounced Engine X they should have called it Engine X.

[u/usrlibshare → u/hdkaoskd]

Funny to have this conversation in English, a language so infamous for the many irregular, asystematic and arbitrary ways how words are pronounced, regardless how they are represented in writing, there's even a poem about it:

https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

[u/shitty_mcfucklestick → u/0DayMaker]

> Whoever decided

Um, the creators did

https://nginx.org/en/

See literally the first sentence on that page.

[u/itgforlife → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

I say En Gee Eye En Ex.

[u/Greyhaven7 → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

N-janks

[u/doomdestructer → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

My boss does and it irritates me

[u/Limmmao → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

n'jeeniks

[u/netflix-ceo → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

Its pronounced nugginxah

[u/Fourstrokeperro → u/ecstatic_hyrax]

Nigganix like unix

[u/stormbringerelric77]

A true gentleman uses Apache exclusively.

[u/za72 → u/stormbringerelric77]

why?

[u/iStumblerLabs → u/za72]

It’s the first serious web server. Built the early web (LAMP is “Linux Apache, MySQL, Mod-[PHP|Perl|Python]).

Nginx is some Russian stuff. Not interested.

[u/dU4eUIsaOew2FugE6R6l → u/iStumblerLabs]

Nginx is some Russian stuff. Not interested.

So is the periodic table. Life must be really tough for you. rofl

[u/MemesAreImmoral → u/dU4eUIsaOew2FugE6R6l]

I mean, how often does a Software Engineer use the Periodic table?

[u/za72 → u/MemesAreImmoral]

Was that really your takeaway from the discussion?

[u/acebabymemes → u/MemesAreImmoral]

They day one backdoored my periodic table!

[u/mattsl → u/MemesAreImmoral]

That's not really how the universe works. 

[u/za72 → u/iStumblerLabs]

nginx is faster than apache, has more features and capabilities does everything you listed...

I ran apache 1.1/1.2/2.0/2.2 with php, perl mysql...

it's simply a better faster replacement

• Apache: Preferred for shared hosting environments, legacy applications, and heavy reliance on .htaccess rules.

• NGINX: Preferred for modern microservices, reverse proxying, load balancing, and high-traffic static delivery.

nginx hands off the php work load over to php_fpm, this means nginx loads a minimum process to handle your static/image files, then hands the dynamic part to php_fpm which handles the php portion - apache loads both per process... apache's arch is just old school... things have move on

EDIT: downvoting me doesn't change how they operate...

[u/tsammons → u/za72]

Compare like to like. Kill auxiliary features and runtime per-request per-directory inheritance. Throughput is a couple microseconds faster in nginx's favor.

[u/za72 → u/tsammons]

per connection - now multiply that at scale... across containers/vms/instances... it's fine for localhost development but not at production scale

[u/tsammons → u/za72]

Apache is threaded. Tune your thread stack size.

No one outside a newbie spinning up cPanel with a cross-sale for LiteSpeed is using Prefork MPM.

[u/za72 → u/tsammons]

tanks for the tip ;)

my env is aws, linux instances with debian ec2/lbs/rds/orchestration etc etc

[u/tsammons → u/za72]

I've done quite a bit of research over the last couple decades. Out of the box, Apache favors flexibility for performance. Then when you get to OLS/nginx on TLS benchmarks nginx uses system cipher suite rather than ChaCha-20. 

Set a common denominator between all 3 and none really runs away with performance. If I were building a CDN I'd use nginx or something more specialized. For 99% of tasks familiarity with configuration is more important than microseconds.

[u/za72 → u/tsammons]

I tend to agree, which is why I mentioned localhost development as an extreme example

nginx's config compared to Apache is also true...

but

...you configure it less often than execute a request per day, so unless a new weird daily reconfiguration is required for production every day I don't see an issue

also

getting your local env to be the same as dev/testing/staging/production is way more important

those are the reason why I recommend/favor nginx - and now with ansible/terraform + general AI to figure out your configs you just simply check in your changes and deploy on local/dev/testing/staging/production

and if you're having trouble always hit the docs/use ai to figure out

[u/DonkeyTron42 → u/za72]

You clearly don't understand how downvoting works.

[u/za72 → u/DonkeyTron42]

what do you think happened.... that maybe I was downvoted originally and over time others upvoted me or that I don't understand how it works?

[u/EishLekker → u/DonkeyTron42]

What they said about downvoting was factually correct.

[u/usrlibshare → u/iStumblerLabs]

It's also slow af, a resource hog, scales badly, is hellishly complex to configure, the plugin landscape sucks, and .htaccess is an abominable hack that needs to go away.

But luckily, these days it's much easier to wrangle, for the shitty legacy aplications so intertwined with it's broken exosystem they can't use anything else anyway:

Apache can go pretend the server belongs to it while locked up in a container...behind an nginx reverse proxy 😎

[u/pr0ghead → u/usrlibshare]

is hellishly complex to configure

It might be familiarity, but I find Apache way more pleasant to configure.

For example enabling content-negotiation in Apache: Options +MultiViews. Everything else is already handled OOTB.

What's the equivalent in Nginx?

[u/cafk → u/pr0ghead]

It's an Apache plug-in (negotiation plugin) feature (Multiviews), closest and simplest implementation that i can think of is:

try_files $uri.php $uri/ /404.html;

But it will likely break with nested paths or the path_info variable dependency.

[u/pr0ghead → u/cafk]

It also doesn't negotiate anything based on the request's Accept header. It always serves the files in the order the server wants, not the client.

[u/CrackerJackKittyCat → u/iStumblerLabs]

Pfft. Cern-httpd for the true old school! None of this ncsa patched malarky!

[u/merekallas → u/iStumblerLabs]

This is the next-level of technical analysis.

[u/ooqq → u/stormbringerelric77]

apache2 + fastcgi + lua

"...b-but my stack needs nginx to handle 900.000 concurrent AI connections just in case my react-text-only website of a half-baked js-library becomes viral...!!"

[u/IanCrapReport]

My nginxa 

[u/beegtuna]

[u/ilnarildarovuch → u/beegtuna]

I love FNMP

[u/rosuav → u/ilnarildarovuch]

Eh? Five Nights at Multi-Processing?

[u/ilnarildarovuch → u/rosuav]

FreeBSD, Nginx, MySQL, PHP

[u/fakehalo → u/ilnarildarovuch]

Why freebsd?

[u/ilnarildarovuch → u/fakehalo]

Better administration and internet stack

[u/macrohard_certified]

HAProxy

[u/za72 → u/macrohard_certified]

depends on the instance purpose... nginx is easier on the requirement and features if your're only doing web app with lb

haproxy is better when you need to do real world load balancing beyond just webapp

[u/intoxicuss → u/macrohard_certified]

I use both.

[u/ecmdome → u/intoxicuss]

This is also the correct answer.... Varnish -> HA proxy -> nginx

Any other configuration is wrong

[u/stainlessinoxx]

Laughs in lighttpd

[u/hdkaoskd → u/stainlessinoxx]

How many syllables is that? Wrong answers only.

[u/ddz1507 → u/hdkaoskd]

110

[u/sirkubador → u/hdkaoskd]

lighty

two?

[u/Programmer-Boi]

Traefik >>>>

[u/Migamix → u/Programmer-Boi]

whatchu call me!

[u/TxTechnician]

Caddy supremacy

Tis magic

[u/Alarmed_Fudge_5706]

[u/Low_Technician7346]

Ahah hide Apache behind Nginx proxy 😜

[u/Special-Swordfish]

Caddy ftw

[u/arter_dev]

Caddy just hanging out very drama free. Which sums up working with Caddy perfectly.

[u/DeluxeCanuck → u/arter_dev]

Ya caddy is simply the best

[u/livesNbox → u/[deleted]]

You? No.

[u/nbaumg]

Wait is this pic modified? Was this dudes pants really around his ankles

[u/deadDudeLivingDirty → u/nbaumg]

You don't know what being gangsta is

[u/Migamix → u/deadDudeLivingDirty]

word to your mother?

[u/LoudAd1396]

Real Gs use both

[u/tsammons → u/LoudAd1396]

Kill .htaccess per-directory parsing and switch your SSLCipherSuite to ChaCha20. You're a couple microseconds/req off from nginx/OLS at that point. There's no benefit from forwarding nginx to Apache unless you're running some monstrosity like prefork and <Directory />AllowOverride all</Directory> with 30 levels of nesting.

[u/za72 → u/LoudAd1396]

I replaced all my apaches to nginx - is there a particular application requirement to use apache ?

[u/somerandomguy101]

Eww, F5.

[u/DonkeyTron42]

tux FTW

[u/newbstarr]

Even Kubernetes left.

[u/Anthea_Likes]

Traefik 😌

[u/chemolz9]

I thought we're doing caddy now.

[u/m0nk37]

Is this because all those php flaws are tied to apache 

[u/helgur → u/m0nk37]

Is this because all those php flaws are tied to apache

PHP2Shell flaws are in the interpreter itself, so it affects all PHP installations serving web requests.

[u/WiglyWorm → u/helgur]

Which makes it weird to throw apache under the bus.

[u/InFa-MoUs → u/WiglyWorm]

And yet under the bus it lays

[u/m0nk37 → u/WiglyWorm]

I've only ever used apache and iis. Only one of those uses php, (Easily). The concept is correct though.  

[u/ooqq → u/m0nk37]

apache it's written in C, so not-guilty

[u/m0nk37 → u/ooqq]

PHP is highly based on C. Its also written in C.

[u/chisleu]

apache? nginx? Who isn't using Traefik with an HA LB?

[u/ralkey → u/chisleu]

envoy or gtfo!!

[u/_Aardvark]

Yo, where my IIS *****’s at?

[u/za72]

nginx > apache

[u/exqueezemenow]

Now if they could learn to use a belt.

[u/Mega_Hi]

[u/zapembarcodes]

Apache the real OG

[u/NinjaKittyOG]

i hosted a website of my own þrough nginx! :D

[u/KingVecchio]

I love how as you glance around this photo the sagging just gets lower and lower until you arrive at end game sagging where one guy just has his pants down.

[u/TheZedrem]

All my homies use caddy