nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.