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Microsoft's Collapse in the Web Server Space Continued This Month (techrights.org)

submitted 7 months ago by starman to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NGINX is rarely used as a web server, it's usually used as a reverse proxy, cache and SSL terminator. Just like HAProxy, Varnish, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

How are we defining a web server? Because to me it's "the thing listening on Port 80 or 443 that responds to HTTP requests."

And, yes, I know they do more than that, but they also do those things quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a pretty clear distinction between a web server and a reverse proxy if you work in the field.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've got over 20 years of experience in the field. I've configured both of them as reverse proxies and web servers.

If Nginx is accepting connections on ports 80 and 443, terminating SSL, and responding to HTTP requests, that makes it a web server. Especially if it's responding with static content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Oh my...