WebFaction adopts Nginx

December 19, 2008; 04:46 AM

Web Hosting provider WebFaction (http://www.webfaction.com) announced on Thursday that it is now using Nginx as its front web server. Benchmarks showed that Nginx is lighter, faster and more scalable than Apache. Nginx can serve up to 12,000 requests per second even with thousands of concurrent connections.

WebFaction was established in 2003 and offers solid and flexible shared hosting with friendly customer support. WebFaction's home grown control panel is recognized as one of the best in the industry for deploying applications in a few clicks and WebFaction is a very popular choice for people using agile tools such as Rails, Django, Drupal, Joomla and more. WebFaction was recently voted as one of the top 10 budget web hosting provider by HostReview.