Comment on Microsoft's Collapse in the Web Server Space Continued This Month
Aux@lemmy.world 5 months agoExcept that’s not what was happening. IIS came after Apache and played a catch up for a while. It almost surpassed Apache in 2007, but GFC happened and its popularity dropped rapidly. If not for GFC, there would be no Apache today.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 months ago
Nginx also increased in popularity around that time, giving more competition to IIS. Most of the web stacks I've seen recently are running Nginx.
(I'm an HAProxy man myself.)
Aux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
NGINX is rarely used as a web server, it’s usually used as a reverse proxy, cache and SSL terminator. Just like HAProxy, Varnish, etc.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 months ago
How are we defining a web server? Because to me it's "the thing listening on Port 80 or 443 that responds to HTTP requests."
Aux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s a pretty clear distinction between a web server and a reverse proxy if you work in the field.