NGINX Blog
blog.nginx.org · Company blog · on HN since 2024
The official NGINX project blog, covering releases and features like ACME, post-quantum crypto, QuickJS, and Encrypted Client Hello.
What HN saysHN links it for new NGINX features, such as native ACME and Encrypted Client Hello support, and for migration guides for ingress controllers.
17HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol3 people · 810 points · first shared 2025 · 298 comments on HN
- 2Rate Limiting with Nginx (2017)3 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 3Celebrating 20 Years of Nginx2 people · 5 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 4Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Nginx1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 5MCP Traffic Monitoring in NGINX1 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 6Nginx Documentation Goes Open Source1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7Full QuickJS Support for Nginx1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 8Build Your Own CDN (2017)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9Nginx – Open-Sourced Session Persistence, Multipath TCP and More1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 10Nginx open source moves to github1 people · first shared 2026
- 11Encrypted client hello comes to nginx1 people · first shared 2026
- 12Migrating from nic to ngf1 people · first shared 2025
- 13Server side webassembly nginx unit1 people · first shared 2024
- 14Migrating ingress controllers part one1 people · first shared 2025
What HN people wrote when they linked it
ashishb · 2026-06-01
Nginx was compelled to move to GitHub [1].
The fact that companies request you to star them on GitHub and the stars can be bought tells you that there is a value in these stars. [2]
Now, some astute reader, who thinks the $1 trillion global advertisement market does not influence them, will also claim that they don't care about GitHub stars.
Well, that's not how the world works.
Fake stars can propel a good project to great.
A lot of people will use GitHub stars as a currency to decide the importance of certain FOSS (or even open-core) projects.
The real lock-in is in GitHub stars [3].
1 - https://blog.nginx.org/blog/nginx-open-source-moves-to-github
2 - https://finance.biggo.com/podcast/1c9f14e134095b87
3 - https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/
notepad0x90 · 2026-03-05
Landed on NGINX already! this is sweet: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/encrypted-client-hello-comes-to-nginx
threeducks · 2025-11-16
> Fail2ban was struggling to keep up: it ingests the Nginx access.log file to apply its rules but if the files keep on exploding… > [...] > But I don’t want to fiddle with even more moving components and configuration You can configure nginx to do rate-limiting directly. Blog post with more details: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/rate-limiting-nginx
gjvc · 2025-11-13
btown · 2025-08-26
"Just use Nginx" was not a viable option here, without additional Certbot etc. orchestration, until 14 days ago! And this is still in preview! https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
And, if you haven't been using a reverse proxy before, or for business/risk reasons don't want to use your main site's infrastructure to proxy the inherited site, and had been handling certificates in your host's cPanel with something like https://www.wpzoom.com/blog/add-ssl-to-wordpress/ - it is indeed a dedicated project to install a reverse proxy!
skylurk · 2025-08-26
Lord_Zero · 2025-04-21
At that point you should be rate limiting at the reverse proxy or load balancer.
- Nginx https://blog.nginx.org/blog/rate-limiting-nginx
- Caddy https://github.com/mholt/caddy-ratelimit
- Treafik https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/ratelimit/
IMO Lambda is kind of an unfair example because the author doesn't mention having multiple instances. Plus a hot take I have is you should not be building an entire web-app as a Lambda or series of Lambda functions... AWS does not have solutions for load balancing in things like APIG so you would have to architect that via DynamoDB or ElastiCache which is the "extra layer or two of overhead" the author mentioned.
peutetre · 2024-10-21
You'd choose wasm on the server if you're using a framework that supports it. For example:
https://blog.nginx.org/blog/server-side-webassembly-nginx-unit
https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-http
Write in any language, compile to WebAssembly, have it run on the server no matter what the server's CPU architecture, achieve better performance with high compatibility.