In 2014, Nginx has decided to sharpen its presence within business marketing with an enterprise strategy. After winning the biggest names in the Internet and social networks, the open source web server company plans to place its growth in the hands of CIOs. To do this, Nginx intends to push a tiered subscription-based solution that provides high-performance, support, and reliability to business and enterprise customers with Nginx Plus and Ngnix Plus Premium.

Nginx released a second version of its corporate commercial release of Nginx Plus. The first version of the product with a paid technical support was released last fall; the new version of the product is focused on working with enterprise-level applications, as well as large projects, where the increased requirements for sustainability is required.

Nginx Plus includes commercial support and a range of tools that are not available in the free version of the server, such as the monitoring of the server, load balancing, dynamic reconfiguration of the server, enhanced logging, the adaptive capacity of broadcasting, services for configuring and fine-tuning servers. There are additional opportunities for routing Java-based applications, which often consist of multiple components operating simultaneously.

The commercial version comes with its own monitoring system. The product also works with New Relic applications for performance management, supports Adobe HDS and Apple HLS video formats for video broadcasting network. Nginx Plus works on standard Linux distributions, Amazon Linux, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. The cost of commercial version starts at $1,350 per year per server.

Nginx Plus 2.0 platform now has improved support for Java-based applications, as well as advanced features for high availability and condition monitoring applications. Nginx users have long been able to have a web server with high availability and Nginx Plus 2.0 release simplifies the use of such a possibility. The new configuration utility allows you to quickly configure and deploy fault tolerant web servers with high availability.

An interesting feature for large companies is that Nginx Plus can monitor the operation of applications using FastCGI protocol, including their input and output traffic. FastCGI is a popular framework for building interactive web applications. It supports the so-called fault tolerant operation, which means that organizations can have a ready backup web server in the event that the primary server failed for some reason.

The commercial version helps in operations to the virtual hosts HTTP status traffic data and verifiable. You can handle the demands of Java thanks to parsing the data contained in the HTTP queries, such as server name or URL. It is compatible with all versions of languages running on the Java virtual machine, such as Groovy or Scala.

Nginx Plus 2.0 release corresponds to the version 1.5.7 Nginx open source web server, which also continues to evolve, enriched with new features and increase customer base. Currently, more than 120 million websites including Netflix, Hulu, Pinterest, AirBnB, WordPress.com, GitHub, SoundCloud, Zynga, Eventbrite and Zappos use Nginx open source software.