# Nginx company **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [July 18, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598 "2011-07-18T16:15:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/1 "2011-07-18T16:15:10Z")
I have got news for you about nginx. Recently it became very clear for me that because of increasing popularity of nginx and the volume of work required to develop the code and doing support, I really need to put it at another level. So, I have decided to focus even more on nginx and established nginx as a company to fully dedicate myself to the project. I am not alone, there are a few nice people working for me on this. I am focusing on the development part, and to some extent on the company operations as well. Our primary goals are improving support and communication for our users, streamlining the development process, revamping the documentation, integrating and speeding up pending bugfixes and patches, introducing long-requested functionality and more. It should be noted that nginx will remain free, open-source software under 2-clause BSD license. There will be no shortage of new and long-awaited features too. Thank you very much for your ongoing support through all these years. Without your awareness, feedback and support nginx would not become that successful. I am really looking forward to see more people who found nginx useful. I am also very glad we now have a proper way of doing a lot more for you. Thanks! – Igor S. ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/2 "2011-07-18T16:35:38Z")
On 18 Jul 2011 15h14 WEST, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: Congratulations Igor. And all the best for your new venture. I believe the market is ripe for such an offering. At least in the drupal world, which I follow more closely, the awareness has being growing and now it’s the time. Looking forward for new developments brought by this newborn company. Obrigado & Felicidades, António ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/3 "2011-07-18T16:45:36Z")
Igor, Excellent news indeed. Congratulations and good luck. -Umesh ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/4 "2011-07-18T17:20:18Z")
Thats awesome! Best of luck to you in your new venture. Regards Rajeev J Sebastian ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/5 "2011-07-18T18:01:06Z")
Hi Igor, this is wonderful news ! We are running nginx on hundreds of server pushing hundreds of gbits/s with very good results. Hope you have good success in the new company 🙂 Have a good day – Maxime Ducharme Systems Architect ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/6 "2011-07-18T18:48:12Z")
Congratulations Igor, best whishes!! ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/7 "2011-07-18T18:53:10Z")
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Igor S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Our primary goals are improving support and communication for our users, > streamlining the development process, revamping the documentation, > integrating and speeding up pending bugfixes and patches, introducing > long-requested functionality and more. A big +1! Hopefully under this company on your own you will be adequately compensated 🙂 I think the minor, iterative release process keeps the changes small enough to be very clean to upgrade. However it does make it a hassle it seems for most of the distributions to keep up. It would be great to see a roadmap and what you’re currently working on/have planned, and perhaps a place to solicit ideas (I suppose we could just make a page on the wiki) for improvements. I assume you will make it known that your company is available for professional services/consulting, since that will probably be the most lucrative way to continue to make money off your free software. Congratulations. This is a big step in showing the world how serious nginx is! ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/8 "2011-07-19T04:02:35Z")
Great news! As a guy knows something of this startup earlier than other people, I’m so glad the company is finally established. It is definitely good news both to nginx and the whole community. Congratulations to Igor and the new nginx team (especially to Alex)! Wish you guys a brighter future. Regards, Joshua ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/9 "2011-07-18T17:36:22Z")
Igor, Great news and we wish you a luck in the future. Regards, Joe On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian \< ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/10 "2011-07-19T05:04:17Z")
It’s definitely a great news for every company that embrace open source software and probably a big threat to commercial company selling expensive black box 🙂 nginx FTW! ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 7:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/11 "2011-07-19T07:27:27Z")
Great news and Congratulations. Thanks for _All the Fish !_ 2011/7/19 leepengg [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/12 "2011-07-19T08:06:59Z")
Wow! This is really a great news. This move will definitely bring more users in our community since many times not-so-techie users prefer to go with commercially supported software. I hope your Nginx venture will provide commercial support & services. You can also partner with some hosting companies for extra revenue. We started a dedicated portal ( [http://wpnginx.com/](http://wpnginx.com/) ) for wordpress-nginx related consultancy & services and so far it received good response without any marketing activity. The point is - your venture is something people are awaiting out there! Wish you & your team plenty of time… 🙂 ## Regards, -Rahul Rahul B. | Founder & CEO | rtCamp Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Skype: rahul286 | Twitter: @rahul286 | Web: [http://rtcamp.com/](http://rtcamp.com/) ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/13 "2011-07-19T05:57:55Z")
Great news and Congratulations. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: nginx company](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,212538,212583#msg-212583)** > > I have got news for you about nginx. Recently it became very clear for me that because of increasing popularity of nginx and the volume of work required to develop the code and doing support, I really need to put it at another level. So, I have... ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 8:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/14 "2011-07-19T08:34:13Z")
very cool. And congrats, Igor. Of course, this is just the beginning. Now comes the hard work… Do keep us updated, and let us know if u need anything! -jf – “Every nonfree program has a lord, a master – and if you use the program, he is your master.” –Richard Stallman “It’s so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help.” – Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation > **[An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git - Part 1 30 Years Of Linux](https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git)** > > Thirty years ago, Linus Torvalds was a 21 year old student at the University of Helsinki when he first released the Linux Kernel. His announcement started, “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional…)”. Three... ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/15 "2011-07-26T20:10:00Z")
Igor, Excellent news!! Congrats to you and your team for all of your hard work. We love nginx and look forward to your continued success. Regards, -Ed ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/16 "2011-07-27T04:12:30Z")
Congrats Igor. Hope you are successful and that this path leads to the widespread adoption of nginx as well as the increased development of ‘edge features’ (specifially the ones we have been begging for for ages 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 3:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/17 "2011-07-23T15:44:12Z")
Hi Igor, Congratulations on the new move. I hope it works out well for you. On 18/07/2011 17:14, Igor S. wrote: > Our primary goals are improving support and communication for our users, > streamlining the development process, revamping the documentation, > integrating and speeding up pending bugfixes and patches, introducing > long-requested functionality and more. > As well as the above list, there one thing that I think would be really > useful for module developers - that is to have a more standardized > interface. If you look through the code of modules from seasoned and > careful module developers, you often see a lot of code which does checks > for nginx\_version and a version number. This obviously happens because changes are made to the core code, and the module developers are taking the time and effort to try to ensure that their modules compile in a large range of versions of Nginx. However, for developers to have to do this themselves in each of the modules they create is a pain, and to me it makes more sense to try to keep such changes in one place. If you could create and maintain say an ngx\_api package that included files with macros and/or functions that would allow module developers to keep such checks in their own modules to a minimum (or eliminate them totally), I think it would make the life of module developers much easier. Thanks, Marcus. ---
**Author:** ![imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/3ab097/32.png) [@imixaly4](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/imixaly4)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-company/209598/18 "2011-08-04T23:12:59Z")
Congrats to Igor and the nginx team! A note on the transition: IMHO, one reason that Rails + Passenger have both succeeded so quickly is, in addition to great code, they had great visual designs. If nginx (the company or the open source project) needs any help with design + UX, i would love to help! Feel free to ping me at [www.jm3.net](http://www.jm3.net) or @jm3 on twitter. I welcome a future, faster-paced, global dominating nginx! – jm3