It's an OSS NGINX fork which implements some of the NGINX stuff which is only in the paid version (metrics, dynamic DNS updates for upstream servers, etc.).
One the one hand, having to recompile every time i add a module, is a damn burden, and exactly why i dont use nginx beyond out of the box. On the other, C performance is much better than Lua.
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[ 6.3 ms ] story [ 177 ms ] threadAngie: A New Nginx Fork Developed by Some of Its Former Devs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33421096
(it's BSD-2-Clause if that interests you)
One the one hand, having to recompile every time i add a module, is a damn burden, and exactly why i dont use nginx beyond out of the box. On the other, C performance is much better than Lua.