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How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

Nginx is one of the most popular open source web server software. It is widely used for load balancing, reverse proxying, media streaming and much more. Nginx is the only all???in???on high-performance HTTP server, designed to serve high volume of concurrent connections, as an alternative to Apache web server. Today Nginx is installed on more then 450 million servers world wide, and is used by one of the highest traffic website on the web like Dropbox, Zynga games, Netflix. There is no question that Nginx is the best-in-class web server and application delivery solution. In this guide we will show you how to install Nginx on Ubuntu 16.40. Installing Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04, is an easy task, just carefully follow the steps bellow and your should have Nginx installed on your Ubuntu server in less then 10 min. This guide should work on other Ubuntu based Linux VPS systems as well but was tested and written for Ubuntu 16.04 VPS.

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