What is a Web Server? Apache, Nginx, and How the Internet Delivers Web Pages
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Discussion of the blog article What is a Web Server? Apache, Nginx, and How the Internet Delivers Web Pages.
A web server accepts HTTP requests and returns responses. Apache has been doing this since 1995. Nginx rebuilt the model in 2004 and took over the cloud. Here's how they work, how they differ, and how to pick between them.
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