Nginx, the free, open source Russian web server I’ve become intimate with over the past 4 years, gets VC funding in prep for going commercial. This is one of the gems of the open source software world.

“Specifically, Alexeev wanted server software that could maintain up to 10,000 concurrent connections per server, which at the time was not possible. An average connection executed through Apache can take several megabytes of working memory, whereas a connection on Nginx can be only consume a few kilobytes, which means Nginx can manage more connections per server, Alexeev explained.”