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Nginx now most popular HTTPD amongst top 1000 websites
http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_just_became_the_most_used_web_server_among_the_top_1000_websites
In other news, people stuck behind the idea that nginx is useless giving blank stares.
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Nginx is very good as a reverse proxy and Http webserver.
I read on netcraft today that nginx is actually losing ground in favor of apache, big time. IIS is becoming more popular in general. Click: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/07/02/july-2013-web-server-survey.html
sarcasm No! Nginx is useless! Apache all the way! /sarcasm Finally people are seeing the light and ditching apache!
http://trends.builtwith.com/Web-Server
Nginx seems to be getting fairly popular, or maybe it's just us installing it on thousands of LEBs....
It's at least curios there are such different statistics, apparently... All I can see is nginx losing ground.
Nginx is great, however, I honestly think that Apache is still the most used web server.
I use Apache.
I think it's great. I'm quite new to linux but i managed to get nginx up and running without even reading any guides apart from the command that installs it. However, i followed a guide to configure it properly afterwards. Runs extremely well on my VPS and also on my Pi.
if only cpanel and nginx works well together
The graphs show something different.
I'm afraid I don't know which graph you're talking about. All the ones at Netcraft seem to be going down for nginx.
Nginx is a great webserver, Apache is too. I still use Apache because it is freaking stable and I've never had a single issue with it. I also like all the plugins and simple integration for other technologies with Apache.
That's just my humble opinion.
I use both
No love for lighty?
Over a longer period of time, they are certainly going up. One data point really isn't enough to say "usage is going down". Fluctuations have happened before.
True. I'm curious where it'll go. Especially if Apache 2.4 becomes more common with it's improved workers.
Who uses the expensive and inefficient IIS anyway?
Apache is overbloated. In todays world of efficiency, apache will fall by the wayside.
Nginx is also very popular on shared hosting servers in front of Apache. In my experiences it makes the server more stable, faster and the load will decrease. Html, images and other file types will be served with less usage from Nginx than Apache.
I don't agree. Apache is definitely not bloated. What makes you say that? Have you used apache recently?
Yes and I got suspended for CPU abuse.
What were you serving off of it? I run some mirrors that are heavily used and they are served off Apache. I've never had a single issue with CPU load.
Perhaps You got suspended mainly by running for example a php script with some great complexity in combination with a lot of users, not apache.
Anyhow, i believe that people started recognizing the power of nginx, additionally as far as i know CloudFlare uses nginx too, so i believe there are a lot of sites running on the CloudFlare free package.
Or maybe I used it for static asset hosting.
Perhaps the HDD has been into PIO mode.
I don't know then, it varies from scenario to scenario.
With all due respect, but I think you were doing something wrong in that case. Apache is known for its larger memory footprint (on default settings), not for it's CPU usage. I've actually never seen Apache eat any significant bit of CPU other than when a PHP process took it for a ride.
Yeah, my main mirror while serving a high load only goes to about a 1.8 load at max.
I did, actually. Had to emergency-migrate Anontune (which is run by a friend of mine) from Apache to lighttpd back when it launched (and got covered on the Wired frontpage) because Apache was absolutely killing the CPU. Didn't have the issue with lighttpd. The issue was so bad that I could barely SSH in.
OK. But my point was: was it Apache or something else? I mean, like PHP or something else embedded into the apache process. For example: top lists it as apache even when it's a PHP request.
@mpkossen I am a big Nginx supporter and I even maintain custom Nginx packages for Centos 6 / RHEL 6 and have one of the Nginx wiki writers on staff. Still, I don't think that Nginx is the perfect solution for every situation, and it's definitively not suited for a shared hosting environment. The problem with Apache is that allot of people either don't know how to configure it, are lazy or leave it to its defaults. If you configure Apache right it is going to work pretty damn well.