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0 pointsSEJeff5y ago0 comments

I was thinking the exact same thing ironically.

Static file serving? Sure!

Load balanced proxying? mod_proxy_balancer is great!

Fine grained caching? mod_disk_cache is also great

Updating loadbalancer bits via the api?

mod_proxy_balancer supports a balancer-manager endpoint for that to do live updates

monitoring? mod_status + prometheus exporter or

mod_prometheus_status

native LE support? https://github.com/icing/mod_md is going to be rolled into upstream apache

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cyberpunk5y ago

Have you actually seen an apache in the wild in the last few years? No one picks it anymore, I'm not sure why.. Well, besides the fact that nginx is now nginx-ingress-controller and we all use k8.. :/

jimjag5y ago

Why does no one pick it anymore? The reason is twofold: (1) the amount of FUD that surrounds it, based on old comparisons of nginx and Apache httpd 1.3 or 2.x using Prefork and (2) cool-kid syndrome. This thread itself is a perfect example.

SEJeffOP5y ago

Apache still runs some really big websites that likely have more requests than many of these startups. Ticketmaster has used Apache for almost 15 years as their primary webserver (but they're fronted by layers of varnish / Akamai). They also maxed out dual 10G links with web traffic in 2007 or so when I worked for them.

That said, netcraft says Apache still runs almost 25% of the internet, which is no small stake: https://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-surve...

mekster5y ago

I still use it to have basic auth connected to LDAP.

The weakness of nginx is that it can't have a dynamic module and if it's not compiled in, you need to roll your own build, which I won't do due to maintenance burden.

TechBro86155y ago

Maybe it‘s due to guilt-by-association with PHP and the LAMP stack...

jldugger5y ago

Yes, but I know some of the apache.org SRE so maybe my view is biased.

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fomine35y ago

mod_md is already on upstream.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_md.html

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