ngwsx is a port of the nginx on windows platform.

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:24:30PM -0700, mike wrote:

> What would be the reason for going with this instead of Kevin's? He
> builds his literally within hours of Igor's releases...
> 
> http://www.kevinworthington.com/2008/09/01/announcing-nginx-0714-for-windows-win32/

Kevin does Cygwin build, while ngwsx is a native Win32 application.
Cygwin adds additinal overhead to Winsock.

BTW, could some one run simple benchmark for Cygwin build ?
Something like requsting empty gif on different host without keepalive
using ab ?

> Installing as a service is a nice built-in option though.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Hq He <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> > <a href="http://ngwsx.eaxi.com/" target="_blank">ngwsx</a> is a port of
> > the nginx on windows platform.
> >
> > The last development version is ngwsx-0.1.3, based on nginx-0.7.14.
> > Installation package: ngwsx-0.1.3-bin.zip, ngwsx-0.1.3-bin.rar.
> > Source package: ngwsx-0.1.3-src.zip, ngwsx-0.1.3-src.rar.
> > The sources are licensed under 2-clause BSD-like license.


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