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Back when the Apache was beaten there was no commercial licensing in Nginx. Also the Apache that was beaten was Apache 1, which was fork-only, and that was the
by lstodd 5y ago
Back when the Apache was beaten there was no commercial licensing in Nginx.
Also the Apache that was beaten was Apache 1, which was fork-only, and that was the whole reason Nginx was written in the first place.
Then Apache did Apache2 with mpm modules and badly missed the mark. After that Apache was doomed. No async support == dead. It was that simple.
- falcolas 5y agoThis jives with my memory of that time as well. Apache just couldn't keep up with Nginx' async speed, and if you weren't having to deal with PHP (before FastCGI's adoption), there was no real reason to use Apache. And post-FCGI's adoption, you didn't need to use Apache, so... why use it?
- saurik 5y agompm_event though from Apache 2.4 was async and kind of great.