Open Source Web Server Developer NGINX Partners With Hosting Leader Parallels
22.05.12
Integration With NGINX Adds Optimized Web Performance to Parallels Plesk Panel 11 ORLANDO, FL and SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Open source web server developer NGINX has partnered with Parallels, the hosting and cloud services enablement leader, to enhance Parallels' web hosting products with NGINX web server capabilities. Under the partnership, Parallels will integrate NGINX open source software into its Parallels Plesk Panel 11 solution, leveraging the renowned architecture and features of NGINX and optimizing the Linux web hosting performance of the Parallels Plesk control panel.
The combined solution will include additional controls to activate NGINX as part of the Parallels Plesk Panel integrated product suite. The announcement was made today in Orlando during Parallels Summit 2012, an event that attracts a global audience of over 1,200 leading participants from across the cloud and hosting industry.
"We are pleased to offer our customers the option to offload resource-consuming tasks like concurrency, compression, caching and SSL acceleration from Apache to achieve more scalability and robustness with Parallels Plesk Panel," said Craig Bartholomew, Vice President, Shared Hosting and Control Panels at Parallels. "NGINX's innovative technology allows us to address the need for managing concurrency issues precisely and with full backward compatibility with the existing Parallels Plesk Panel installations."
Source: HostReview.com (press release)