Deploying Nginx as a Web Server

Nginx can be used as a proxy server or for directly serving traffic.

Nginx is one of the highest performance and lowest memory footprint webserver today according to netcraft.

It is used best when used as a proxy server or for serving static content.

3 Ways to Deploy Nginx

1. web server
2. proxy server
3. hybrid Deployments

Nginx as a Web Server it is simple.

Nginx as Web Server

Nginx as a Proxy:

proxying the connection to either a backend apache or Nginx server it works as a reverse proxy server.

It can also be used as a load balancer.

Hybrid Nginx Deployments:

In this case, we can have Nginx as a web server as well as a proxy server. the proxy server can serve the static content as well as it can redirect the traffic to apache and other Nginx server