If it was really that easy to spread this questionable message for years, it would be as easy to spread other articles as well. So it wouldn't need more than a

If it was really that easy to spread this questionable message for years, it would be as easy to spread other articles as well. So it wouldn't need more than a few articles, like "nginx + ssl = works like a charm", or "nginx has better SSL support than Apache". It would not matter whether those were actually correct, just a single article of questionable quality would be sufficient.