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Kore vs nginx: What are the differences?

  1. Performance: Kore is known for its lightweight nature, designed for high-performance web applications, utilizing an event-driven architecture, whereas Nginx, while also efficient, is more feature-rich and commonly used for a wide range of web server tasks, including load balancing, reverse proxying, and caching.
  2. Configuration: Kore utilizes a simple configuration format that is easy to understand and work with, allowing for quick setups and modifications. On the other hand, Nginx uses a more complex configuration syntax, which can be daunting for beginners but provides extensive flexibility and functionality, especially for intricate server setups.
  3. Modules: Kore offers fewer out-of-the-box modules compared to Nginx, making it more streamlined and efficient for specific purposes but may require additional development for certain functionalities. Nginx, with its vast array of modules, covers a wide range of features and needs without the need for extensive customization or additional development work.
  4. Scalability: Kore is designed to be highly scalable and efficient in handling a large number of connections simultaneously, making it ideal for high-traffic web applications. Nginx, while also scalable, may require additional configurations and optimizations for extremely high loads, as it is more feature-rich and may incur additional resource overhead.
  5. Community Support: Nginx boasts a larger and more active community compared to Kore, which translates to more resources, documentation, and support available for users. Kore, while steadily growing its community, may have limited resources and community-driven contributions compared to Nginx.
  6. Ease of Use: Kore focuses on simplicity and minimalism, providing a straightforward approach to web server tasks. Nginx, although powerful, may have a steeper learning curve for beginners due to its extensive feature set and complex configuration options.

In Summary, Kore and Nginx differ in their performance focus, configuration simplicity, module availability, scalability, community support, and ease of use.

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I am diving into web development, both front and back end. I feel comfortable with administration, scripting and moderate coding in bash, Python and C++, but I am also a Windows fan (i love inner conflict). What are the votes on web servers? IIS is expensive and restrictive (has Windows adoption of open source changed this?) Apache has the history but seems to be at the root of most of my Infosec issues, and I know nothing about nginx (is it too new to rely on?). And no, I don't know what I want to do on the web explicitly, but hosting and data storage (both cloud and tape) are possibilities. Ready, aim fire!

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Simon Aronsson
Developer Advocate at k6 / Load Impact · | 4 upvotes · 634.3K views
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I would pick nginx over both IIS and Apace HTTP Server any day. Combine it with docker, and as you grow maybe even traefik, and you'll have a really flexible solution for serving http content where you can take sites and projects up and down without effort, easily move it between systems and dont have to handle any dependencies on your actual local machine.

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From a StackShare Community member: "We are a LAMP shop currently focused on improving web performance for our customers. We have made many front-end optimizations and now we are considering replacing Apache with nginx. I was wondering if others saw a noticeable performance gain or any other benefits by switching."

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I use nginx because it is very light weight. Where Apache tries to include everything in the web server, nginx opts to have external programs/facilities take care of that so the web server can focus on efficiently serving web pages. While this can seem inefficient, it limits the number of new bugs found in the web server, which is the element that faces the client most directly.

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Leandro Barral
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I use nginx because its more flexible and easy to configure

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Christian Cwienk
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I use Apache HTTP Server because it's intuitive, comprehensive, well-documented, and just works

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Daniel Calvo
Co-Founder at Polpo Data Analytics & Software Development · | 8 upvotes · 212.5K views

For us, NGINX is a lite HTTP server easy to configure. On our research, we found a well-documented software we a lot of support from the community.

We have been using it alongside tools like certbot and it has been a total success.

We can easily configure our sites and have a folder for available vs enabled sites, and with the nginx -t command we can easily check everything is running fine.

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Grant Steuart
  • Server rendered HTML output from PHP is being migrated to the client as Vue.js components, future plans to provide additional content, and other new miscellaneous features all result in a substantial increase of static files needing to be served from the server. NGINX has better performance than Apache for serving static content.
  • The change to NGINX will require switching from PHP to PHP-FPM resulting in a distributed architecture with a higher complexity configuration, but this is outweighed by PHP-FPM being faster than PHP for processing requests.
  • The NGINX + PHP-FPM setup now allows for horizontally scaling of resources rather vertically scaling the previously combined Apache + PHP resources.
  • PHP shell tasks can now efficiently be decoupled from the application reducing main application footprint and allow for scaling of tasks on an individual basis.
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Pros of Kore
Pros of NGINX
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    SPDY
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    Super-lightweight
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    Super-fast
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    Full featured
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    HTTPS
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    High-performance http server
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    Performance
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    Easy to configure
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    Open source
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    Load balancer
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    Free
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    Scalability
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    Web server
  • 175
    Simplicity
  • 136
    Easy setup
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    Content caching
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    Web Accelerator
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    Capability
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    Fast
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    High-latency
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    Predictability
  • 8
    Reverse Proxy
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    The best of them
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    Supports http/2
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    Great Community
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    Lots of Modules
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    Enterprise version
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    High perfomance proxy server
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    Reversy Proxy
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    Streaming media delivery
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    Streaming media
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    Embedded Lua scripting
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    GRPC-Web
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    Blash
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    Lightweight
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    Fast and easy to set up
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    Slim
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    saltstack
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    Virtual hosting
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    Narrow focus. Easy to configure. Fast
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    Along with Redis Cache its the Most superior
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    Ingress controller

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    What is Kore?

    Kore is an easy to use web application framework for writing scalable web APIs in C. Its main goals are security, scalability and allowing rapid development and deployment of such APIs. Because of this Kore is an ideal candidate for building robust, scalable and secure web things.

    What is NGINX?

    nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.

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