LWlwhsiao·Jul 18, 2026Submission
Angie – Drop-In Replacement for Nginx
2 points · Open discussionwebserver-llc
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Angie - drop-in replacement for nginx
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Observed mentions: 2022-11-01 14:15:30 UTC to 2026-07-18 02:44:25 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesHere is the list of nginx contributors sorted by number of commits before nginx's team split in 2022:
$ hg log -b default | grep ^user: | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
3683 user: Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>
1681 user: Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>
630 user: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@nginx.com>
413 user: Valentin Bartenev <vbart@nginx.com>
226 user: Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
209 user: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@nginx.com>
120 user: Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
45 user: Piotr Sikora <piotr@cloudflare.com>
40 user: Piotr Sikora <piotrsikora@google.com>
32 user: Dmitry Volyntsev <xeioex@nginx.com>
Source: https://hg.nginx.org/nginx/
Valentin, Ruslan and Vladimir currently are working on Angie.
Igor actually doesn
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't contribute to nginx since 2012... there are only few small commits after these dates, most of his contributions are between 2002 and 2012.
Maxim now works on freenginx alone. And here is a response from an Angie developer about consolidation with freenginx: https://github.com/webserver-llc/angie/issues/74 - why it won't happen.
Angie v1.5.0 has released with automatic HTTPS provisions TLS certificates using built-in ACME support. It is used instead of EFF Certbot or Caddy.
Read more about what the difference is with nginx: https://angie.software/en/#features
Github repo: https://github.com/webserver-llc/angie
In Angie, fork of Nginx, supports ACMEThere is another fork already from some "ex-devs from the original team"
https://angie.software/en/
https://github.com/webserver-llc/angie
In Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces forkI don't get it...does not he knows about angie [1]? It was created by NGINX core devs after F5 acquisition if I'm not mistaken and it's a drop-in replacement for NGINX.
[1] https://github.com/webserver-llc/angie
In Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces forkThey also seem to be tracking upstream(?) changes https://github.com/webserver-llc/angie/commit/20da8e2aa00270...
(it's BSD-2-Clause if that interests you)
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