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OpenResty, the quietly dominant web server most developers ignore

Original: Ever heard of OpenResty? Most devs haven't. It's a web server built on nginx, and it serves 5.5% of the web we index. Th

OpenResty, a web server platform built on top of nginx with Lua scripting support, reportedly serves about 5.5% of the indexed web — more than Microsoft's IIS and LiteSpeed combined. Despite that scale, many developers have never heard of it, and tech commentators are calling it a quiet workhorse of internet infrastructure worth paying attention to.

Why now: A viral post highlighted how a little-known nginx-based server outperforms better-known alternatives, surprising many developers.

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• Ever heard of OpenResty? Most devs haven't. It's a web server built on nginx, and it serves 5.5% of the web we index. That's more than IIS and LiteSpeed put together. Quiet workhorse. cl0q.com/site/openres... #webdev #infrastructure #internet · cl0qsearch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · 1

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