“nginx development was started about 9 years ago. The first
public version 0.1.0 has been released on October 4, 2004. Now
W3Techs reports that 6.8% of the top 1 million sites on the web
(according to Alexa) use nginx. And 46.9% of top Russian sites use
nginx.Netcraft reports similar 6.52% nginx share of the million
busiest sites in April 2011.