Matt Rice quoted: > Apache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you > only need six. > Nginx does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times > faster than Apache.
In all fairness it should be said that Apache is primarily focused on correctness and features, not speed, and can do loads of things that nginx won't do which are still very useful. Like with Word, it may well be the case that *you* need only six out of Apache's million options but *I* probably need six different ones, and if nginx does four of those 50 times faster than Apache but can't do the other two at all, then I'm hosed as far as nginx is concerned. It should also be said that Apache 2.4 with the event MPM is purportedly no longer noticeably slower than nginx. Finally, Apache remains the most popular web server in the world by a very wide margin. When we count only active web sites (and exclude parked domains etc.) Apache hosts way more of those than all other web servers taken together. This has been the case for the last 20 years or so and is likely to stay that way for quite some time. Apache is also part of every single interesting Linux distribution. Hence, I would be very suspicious about reducing Apache coverage in the LPI exams in favour of the fashionable-web- server-of-the-week which may or may not even be around anymore two years from now. (Which is not to say that nginx in particular is a bad program, or in immediate danger of disappearing, only that using nginx as the thin point of the wedge in order to shoehorn in everybody's own personal favourite web server/proxy/… may not be that great an idea.) Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau ... Linup Front GmbH ... Linux-, Open-Source- & Netz-Schulungen [email protected], +49(0)6151-9067-103, Fax -299, www.linupfront.de Linup Front GmbH, Postfach 100121, 64201 Darmstadt, Germany Sitz: Weiterstadt (AG Darmstadt, HRB7705), Geschäftsführer: Oliver Michel _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
