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Nginx is not relatively simple. It's not easy. It's an unintuitive, poorly documented minefield. I agree with you in principle, but in practice mthese services replace dozens of hours of banging your head against software that's one misstep from blowing your legs clean off. Sometimes, you have better things to do than tweaking nginx configs using the average of a dozen tutorials and docs that might as well be written…
> Nginx is not relatively simple. Sure it is, if your needs are simple and you follow a tutorial and don't just randomly spam stuff into your config files. Nginx can get really really complicated but it doesn't have to. > mthese services replace dozens of hours of banging your head against software that's one misstep from blowing your legs clean off. Yes, you can definitely spend hours figuring out Nginx, but you can…
Blame the user all you want, but after a decade of using nginx, I'm ready to claim that it's a pain to work with.