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		nirav72 on April 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while ... Looks like Nginx has the highest usage in Russia. Why is that?

tyingq on April 11, 2017 [–]

Creator of nginx is Russian. Which probably means good word of mouth marketing, good docs in their language, etc.

emanreus on April 11, 2017 | [–]

If I'm not mistaken he created it while working at/for rambler.ru which is one of the biggest Russian websites (it was serving 500 million requests per day at that time).

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