It's by no means obsolete. You could think of it as a matter of constraints. For the world cup I hosted a results feed in an nginx serving an static file and i

It's by no means obsolete. You could think of it as a matter of constraints. For the world cup I hosted a results feed in an nginx serving an static file and it worked great, my other option was using S3 which was much more expensive and as I had time and wanted to keep the project's budget low I ended up with a cheap VPS.