How exactly is NGINX spelled?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at nginx.com
Sat Dec 15 22:09:14 UTC 2012


On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:37:51PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this got me thinking:
>  - nginx.com says "NGINX" in all-caps on the frontpage,
>  - the page with the links to FAQ and handbook also spells it like
>    "NGINX" - at least three times out of four
>  - the FAQ itself spells it "nginx".
>  - sometimes you also see Nginx...
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone with an nginx.com email-address spell it out for once?
> ;-)

We use all possible spellings.  :)

"nginx" when it's about software (http://nginx.org/en/) or command name
"Nginx" when it's about company (Nginx, Inc.) (http://nginx.com)
"NGINX" when it's about environment variable (http://nginx.org/r/env)



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