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Who's still using Apache?

Ugh, seriously. I mean, who wants a stable http daemon that's well supported, well documented, and well understood by a giant community of users? Sounds boring to me...

I use it. On purpose. It's a good general purpose web server and does a good job.

It's also copiously documented and extremely well-understood. There will always be bugs in software but you can usually fix problems quickly, there's few surprises or gotchas. I trust it.

Two million servers, according to Rapid7: https://blog.rapid7.com/2019/04/03/apache-http-server-privil...

40% of web?

"Apache is used by 43.8% of all the websites whose web server we know." according to https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ws-apache/all/all

I would venture a guess and say it's largely because all the shared hosting providers use it. Less and less people actually choose it given a choice.

Yeah sorry, I meant on purpose.

Most shared hostings still use Apache for compatibility with .htaccess and rubbish like that.

Rubbish? You mean like keeping the web working and making sure URLs never die? Not everything needs to be upgraded to the latest hot thing. HTTPD is proven & stable; this is a rare bug.

For example with RHEL you have apache in base repository, but for nginx you must either add unsupported epel or nginx own repositories. If you want commercial support from RHEL, but you don't want to buy another commercial support fro Nginx, you have to use apache httpd.

That's not true, Red Hat actually has nginx in its Software Collections: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_softwa...

I am. It is extremely fit for purpose. What do you think is wrong with it?

Me. Why shouldn't I?

Haven't you heard, Apache isn't Web Scale.

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