2012-2015 I worked at a shared hosting company and towards the end of my tenure there we revamped the architecture to be centered on nginx (SSL termination, HTT

2012-2015 I worked at a shared hosting company and towards the end of my tenure there we revamped the architecture to be centered on nginx (SSL termination, HTTP2 support, etc.) and invested quite a bit in API and GUI support for rewrite rules, redirects, etc. However, for better or worse, a lot of the software people want to run on shared hosting come with a .htaccess file and documentation for how to configure it otherwise. So we gave customers a choice to put Apache behind nginx. Unfortunately I left too early to learn what %age of customers ended up enabling Apache but they‘re still running this architecture today.