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Main on December 1st, 2011 by Pingdom
Apache is still the undisputed king of web server software but according to the latest Netcraft Web Server Survey from November 2011, NGINX usage has grown almost 300% over the last year.
In real numbers NGINX increased from about 15 million sites a year ago to 43 million in November 2011. That’s a faster growth than any other web server software tracked by Netcraft.
Since we’re big fans of NGINX at Pingdom, we wanted to try to understand this tremendous growth, so we put some questions to Andrew Alexeev (Q&A further down). Andrew looks after Business Development and Marketing for NGINX Inc., the company formed in October this year, backed by $3 million in venture funding, with the intent to expand the open source NGINX project and explore commercial opportunities.
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Main on August 15th, 2008 by Pingdom
Tricky, funny and interesting, these are some questions people claim to have been asked at job interviews with Microsoft and Google. And IKEA, sort of… We came across these because we are currently looking for a developer and a support technician to join the Pingdom team, and were searching around the Web for some inspiration [...]
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Main on August 8th, 2008 by Pingdom
Steve Souders, the creator of YSlow and the author of the book High Performance Web Sites, is one of the most respected experts on website performance in the world. We here at Pingdom are big fans of his work, and decided to probe his mind about the excellent YSlow Firefox add-on for evaluating website performance [...]
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Pingdom on November 9th, 2007 by Pingdom
There is an interview with Sam Nurmi, our CEO, over at the popular web technology blog and news site CenterNetworks. If you want to learn more about what makes Sam tick, and his thoughts and plans for Pingdom and the uptime monitoring industry as a whole, we recommend that you head over to CenterNetworks and [...]
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