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Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache

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Re: Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache

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Post by synergy20 »

Considering nginx is really just good at serving static content(maybe CDN uses it a lot) and the rest are all proxying, and Apache can handle static and dynamic contents at the same time, this tells me many web server nowadays are no longer simple http+cgi, but with app servers(e.g. django, rails,etc) running behind a (nginx) proxy so nginx's number takes over apaches.

Re: Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

synergy20 wrote: post #4

Considering nginx is really just good at serving static content(maybe CDN uses it a lot) and the rest are all proxying, and Apache can handle static and dynamic contents at the same time, this tells me many web server nowadays are no longer simple http+cgi, but with app servers(e.g. django, rails,etc) running behind a (nginx) proxy so nginx's number takes over apaches.

You can serve dynamic content from nginx too. You don't need Apache in your stack at all.

Re: Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache

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Post by newbird_aa123 »

No surprise, Nginx has much better performance on handling large site and heavy traffic than other web servers. Since it’s required more knowledge and experience to setup and do configurations, that make lots of beginners step away. But time will prove cream always rises to the top.
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