Nginx has historically been easier to scale up out of the box. Not to say Apache can't be configured to be competitive, but there's at least the perception that

Nginx has historically been easier to scale up out of the box. Not to say Apache can't be configured to be competitive, but there's at least the perception that it's not as good at concurrency [1]. [1] https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-server-performance-comparison https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215945987-Web-s...