Alternative Nginx option - Tengine? - Enhance Control Panel

Alternative Nginx option - Tengine?

ecknz

Not sure how many would use or know of Tengine it as it's probably a niche option, so just putting this out there for consideration.

I have tested this with Wordpress and it seems to preform much faster and the Nginx plugins eg Nginx helper and cache work perfectly.

Details from the website:
https://tengine.taobao.org

Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has proven to be very stable and efficient on some of the top 100 websites in the world, including Taobao.com, Tmall.com, Youku, AliExpress, Lazada and Alibaba Cloud.

Features:
All features of Nginx-1.24.0 are inherited, i.e., it is compatible with Nginx.
Dynamically reconfigure the servers, locations and upstreams without reloading or restarting worker processes.
HTTP/3 support (QUIC v1 and draft-29).
High-speed UDP transmission with kernel-bypass.
Dynamically reconfigure routing based on standard and custom HTTP header, cookie, query and weights.
Dynamically reconfigure routing to add/append custom headers or add query parameter to the HTTP request.
Dynamically reconfigure routing to add custom headers to the HTTP response without tengine reload.
Dynamically reconfigure TLS versions, timeout setting, SSL Redirects, CORS and enabling/disabling robots for the server and location.
Support the CONNECT HTTP method for forward proxy.
Enhanced operations monitoring, such as asynchronous log & rollback, DNS caching, memory usage, etc.
Sends unbuffered upload directly to HTTP and FastCGI backend servers, which saves disk I/Os.
Support asynchronous SSL/TLS mode, Could use QAT to offload and accelerated SSL.
More load balancing methods, e.g., consistent hashing, session persistence, upstream health check, and resolving upstream domain

AdamM

I know Angie https://en.angie.software/
They have nice extras, always up-to-date version of nginx and auto ssl.

bgeek

It's no better than a well-configured Nginx. I don't think this kind of tailored option should be considered for a control panel when security and stability are the main concerns.

JohnB

bgeek plus I don't have to wonder Chinese garbage has been added.

cosmoshosting

Is it substantially different, better in performance or offer anything truly unique? Every man and his dog seems to be forking and putting their own spin on Nginx now.

I'd rather Enhance spend the time to better optimise and integrate the current engines.

JohnB

cosmoshosting Every man and his dog seems to be forking and putting their own spin on Nginx now.

What about Nginx but... now hear me out... the config file is in XML and parsed via NodeJS ?

ecknz

cosmoshosting Is it substantially different, better in performance or offer anything truly unique? Every man and his dog seems to be forking and putting their own spin on Nginx now.

In my tests it had far better performance than the standard Nginx, however not everyone has the same system or needs.
Tegine has been around for some time and ideal for high-traffic websites and applications, It includes improved SSL/TLS performance and advanced DDoS protection as well as enhanced proxy caching and dynamic caching.

@JohnB There might be some quality as it's not from Temu or Shein

cosmoshosting I'd rather Enhance spend the time to better optimise and integrate the current engines.

Yes this is the best option and maybe Enhance can get some ideas from this one

JohnB

ecknz There might be some quality as it's not from Temu or Shein

Yeah I'd rather deal with XML in JS than Temu code and that's saying something. Imagine if they created a Fiverr alternative: Temu Devs

smitka

I have tested Tengine and have not been able to find a test scenario where its results are any different from Nginx. Maybe if Async SSL could be made to work, but that requires a lot of compilation to use Intel QAT, where Intel Xeon is needed. Unfortunately I haven't had the space to try it out.

I think it would be better to tweak the Nginx used in Enhance and add for example HTTP/3 support, Brotli/ZSTD compression and improve its settings and configuration options.

I plan to offer to help the Enhance team if they're interested, but I didn't want to disturb them while they were working on v12 :-)

I would see it as ideal to keep the existing Nginx with mod_security and add another "Optimized Nginx" option with a tweaked image.

ecknz

smitka I think it would be better to tweak the Nginx used in Enhance and add for example HTTP/3 support, Brotli/ZSTD compression and improve its settings and configuration options.

Some options that are unique to Enhance would be great not specifically Tengine as there is another panel that has it.
It was late when this was posted originally and think it should have been more features similar to Tengine.

It would be good to have the option to add modules for the Nginx application role install and reinstall the role.
This could be a selected set of options with enable / disable, or the option to add additional compile commands

eg section or popup box with an option to add multiple additional modules

Add Module

Fields for compile addition
Module name: Fictional pagespeed plus Module description* A fictional pagespeed plus module Command: --add-module=/path/of/files/pagespeed-plus Script to run: mkdir -p /path/under/nginx/for/module git clone = git url location /path/created/above cd path created && git submodule update --init

You could probably do something similar with Apache or OLS