FreeNgnix - A fork of Ngnix

Introducing FreeNgnix, a fork of Ngnix. Ngnix is one of the most popular web servers used today. It is powering world's 20% of internet traffic. Ngnix can be used as Load balancer, Reverse proxy server, Content cache, Web server. Ngnix was developed by Russian developer Igor Sysoev as open source software and it was released under BSD-2-Clause license. It is written is C and it can be installed in Windows, Linux and MacOS. Ngnix had a strong community base and most of the enhancements and security fixes were contributed by community members across the globe.

F5 Networks is one of global leader in multi cloud services acquired Ngnix on May 2019. F5 maintains the open source version of the Ngnix and also it has enterprise version of the product. Though F5 is committed to the open source contribution, their main focus still remains on commercial software. This is one of the biggest problem for most of the open source products.

Maxim Dounin, one of core contributor of Ngnix announced to fork Ngnix and release it as freengnix. He was not happy with the technical management in F5. The security and vulnerability fixes are not released on time for open source version of the product. This will affect millions of web servers in the internet who are using community version.

His aim is to free Ngnix development from corporate and keep it free for ever. It is for the developer and from the developer.

We hope his aim and mission to accomplish in the future. Maxim Dounin has to raise funds and increase the community base so that he can sustain in the open source development.