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About a decade ago nginx stormed onto the scene with event based multi-processing, and even though mpm-event became a thing not too long after that, Apache retained mpm-prefork and then mpm-worker as defaults for a very long time, and lost a lot of market share. A lot of people still retain the notion that nginx is "just faster" or "just better" which is not necessarily the case. Apache with mpm-event is just fine fo…
To be fair, the event worker in Apache and nginx are roughly the same age, 2004. Smaller web servers have been event based since they first showed up, it is the natural way to build them. There was no epoll() available, but a select() loop is pretty much the same thing. The super useful thttpd had been around a long time at that time. What caused people to start using non-forking web servers for regular public web ap…
Before nginx, lighttpd was a thing. It also comes with `spawn-fcgi` to handle fastcgi, but it's a little complex to set up. Back then people were also using `spawn-fcgi` with nginx, too. I remembered reading some tutorial and decided that I will continue to use Apache with mod_php due to complexity. When php-fpm come, I immediately switched.