Ask HN: Are we upon the convergence of Apache, Nginx and “other”?

by httbson 10/2/2023, 10:46:20 AM with 7 comments
  • by alrson 10/2/2023, 10:52:17 AM

    I have nothing bad to say about Apache, and it felt kind of weird that people were investing time in replacing it when so many of the scripting languages that sat behind it were hot-garbage, top to bottom.

    I assume that "other" is "load balancers."

  • by ggmon 10/2/2023, 10:56:11 AM

    Caddy. Broke the ground with QUIC. Amazingly fast.

    I jumped from Apache to nginx but the cgi thing continues to confuse me. I hate the inner protocol to pass cgi calls to a preforked engine, fast though it is.

  • by seedless-sensaton 10/2/2023, 12:01:56 PM

    Other: Node.js, Golang, CDNs, Cloud-managed services, etc.

  • by joshxyzon 10/3/2023, 4:07:34 PM

    caddy rocks fof automated tls and ease of deployment.

    then there is haproxy, envoy, traefik that are configurable as hell.

    i love em all.

  • by elsadekon 10/2/2023, 8:20:22 PM

    Nginx was always the preferred one for reverse proxy, and it has a large existence compared to Apache.

  • by aynycon 10/2/2023, 2:41:32 PM

    Cloud services such as API gateway. I don’t think load balancers show up in the survey.

  • by ksecon 10/2/2023, 12:40:53 PM

    OpenResty / Cloudflare, Caddy, IIS, etc.