Comment on Microsoft's Collapse in the Web Server Space Continued This Month
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 months agoNginx 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.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 5 months ago
I've got over 20 years of experience in the field. I've configured both of them as reverse proxies and web servers.
If Nginx is accepting connections on ports 80 and 443, terminating SSL, and responding to HTTP requests, that makes it a web server. Especially if it's responding with static content.