This article covers how you can easily install Nginx on your openSUSE system. In fact, Nginx or engine x is a high-performance HTTP- and proxy server with low memory consumption. It is used by large scale websites like Netflix, Pinterest, CloudFlare , Github etc. Nginx has an easy to learn configuration syntax and can act also as a load balancer with health checks and reverse proxy with caching features.

You can Install Nginx with the "zypper in" command:

$ zypper in nginx

Start nginx and enable it to be started at boot time:

$ systemctl start nginx
$ systemctl enable nginx

This article covers how you can easily install Nginx on your Ubuntu server. In fact, Nginx is used for security and load-balancing, but can also function independently as a web server. 

It was created on 4 October 2004 by Russian developer Igor Sysoev as he was frustrated with Apache web server and wanted to build a replacement capable of handling 10,000 concurrent connections with a focus on performance, high concurrency, and low memory usages.

How to Enable NGINX on Boot ?

So to enable start-up on boot, run this command:

$ systemctl enable nginx

So we get confirmation of a start-up, symlink being created for this service.