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NGINX Community Blog
Company blog · blog.nginx.org/blogsystemsweb
NGINX Community Blog is the company blog at blog.nginx.org, writing about systems and web. Since 2024, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Rate Limiting with Nginx (2017)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite NGINX Community Blog posts as references for practical setup: rate limiting, native ACME certificate support, Ingress controller migration, Encrypted Client Hello, and server-side WebAssembly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The site for discussion on NGINX Open Source Projects
Most-linked posts?
- Rate Limiting with Nginx (2017)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-21
- Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-13
- Celebrating 20 Years of Nginx2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-17
What Hacker News says?
> Fail2ban was struggling to keep up: it ingests the Nginx access.log file to apply its rules but if the files keep on exploding… > [...] > But I don’t want to fiddle with even more moving components and configuration You can configure nginx to do rate-limiting directly. Blog post with more details: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/rate-limiting-nginx
Comment linking /blog/rate-limiting-nginx
on “The internet is no longer a safe haven”Submitted Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol as a story · 810 points
HN discussion"Just use Nginx" was not a viable option here, without additional Certbot etc. orchestration, until 14 days ago! And this is still in preview! https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol And, if you haven't been using a reverse proxy before, or for business/risk reasons don't want to use your main site's infrastructure to proxy the inherited site, and had been handling certificates in your host's cP…
Comment linking /blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
on “SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious”Submitted Nginx Control API: View In-Memory Configuration and Reload via HTTP Requests as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot for long. https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
Comment linking /blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol
on “SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious”Submitted Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Nginx as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou'd choose wasm on the server if you're using a framework that supports it. For example: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/server-side-webassembly-nginx-un... https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-http Write in any language, compile to WebAssembly, have it run on the server no matter what the server's CPU architecture, achieve better performance with high compatibility.
Comment linking /blog/server-side-webassembly-nginx-unit
on “Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages”Submitted Predicate Routing for Native Handling of API Traffic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAt that point you should be rate limiting at the reverse proxy or load balancer. - Nginx https://blog.nginx.org/blog/rate-limiting-nginx - Caddy https://github.com/mholt/caddy-ratelimit - Treafik https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/ratelimit/ IMO Lambda is kind of an unfair example because the author doesn't mention having multiple instances. Plus a hot take I have is you should not be building an entire…
Comment linking /blog/rate-limiting-nginx
on “The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process”Submitted MCP Traffic Monitoring in NGINX as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhile that is true, at that point you should be rate limiting at the reverse proxy or load balancer. - Nginx https://blog.nginx.org/blog/rate-limiting-nginx - Caddy https://github.com/mholt/caddy-ratelimit - Treafik https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/ratelimit/
Comment linking /blog/rate-limiting-nginx
on “The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process”Submitted Celebrating 20 Years of Nginx as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsee also https://blog.nginx.org/blog/migrating-ingress-controllers-pa... https://blog.nginx.org/blog/migrating-from-nic-to-ngf
Comment linking /blog/migrating-from-nic-to-ngf
on “Ingress Nginx Retirement: What You Need to Know”Submitted Full QuickJS Support for Nginx as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLanded on NGINX already! this is sweet: https://blog.nginx.org/blog/encrypted-client-hello-comes-to-...
Comment linking /blog/encrypted-client-hello-comes-to-nginx
on “RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello”Submitted Nginx Documentation Goes Open Source as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNginx was compelled to move to GitHub [1]. The fact that companies request you to star them on GitHub and the stars can be bought tells you that there is a value in these stars. [2] Now, some astute reader, who thinks the $1 trillion global advertisement market does not influence them, will also claim that they don't care about GitHub stars. Well, that's not how the world works. Fake stars can propel a good project…
Comment linking /blog/nginx-open-source-moves-to-github
on “GitHub and the Crime Against Software”Submitted Celebrating 20 Years of Nginx as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Build Your Own CDN (2017) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rate Limiting with Nginx (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nginx – Open-Sourced Session Persistence, Multipath TCP and More as a story · 1 points
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