Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites

Re:Nginx just became the most used web server among the top ... by xionon on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:10AM (#5985016)

nginx is a good tool, and you should probably twiddle with it sometime so you know what it's about.

As far as I know, nginx can do anything Apache can do. nginx is generally faster than Apache. Apache can include modules without a recompile, nginx often requires you recompile to add features. nginx can be used as a reverse-proxy, a load balancer, or a thin SSL / SPDY layer, and succeed; Apache isn't as well suited to non-traditional web serving.

Personally, I find nginx's configuration syntax nicer to read and write than Apache's.

LAMP is fine for small experimental websites. Do what you're comfortable with! The scale at which the differences between nginx and Apache actually matters is pretty large.

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Re:Nginx just became the most used web server among the top ... by stephenr on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @11:37AM (#5985232)

there is plenty apache does that nginx doesn't do. Also, as stated in another comment, apache can do reverse or forward proxying.

Anyone trying to argue for nginx on the basis of better feature support (over apache) is blind to the reality of things.

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Re:Nginx just became the most used web server among the top ... by tracker1 on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @03:00PM (#5986760)

NginX can act as a caching proxy with less overhead and faster response times than Apache does, and even more so under heavy load.

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