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  • rysiek@szmer.infotoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhy do so many people use NGINX?
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    4 months ago

    HAproxy cannot serve static files directly. You need a webserver behind it for that.

    Apache is slow.

    Nginx is both a capable, fast reverse-proxy, and a capable, fast webserver. It can do everything HAproxy does, and what Apache does, and more.

    I am not saying it is absolutely best for every use-case, but this flexibility is a large part of why I use it in my infra (nad have been using it for a decade).