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A lot of people use apache+nginx+mod_wsgi combination, but it seems to me that's more complicated than having just one web server. Apache might be more versatile, but if used with wsgi, and if you use nginx as well anyways, I don't see the need for all the bells and whistles apache has?

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Apache is also very well-tested and extremely reliable. For some people and organizations, that's a very important factor.

I happen to find this post very helpful as a student of the craft, and your comments seem to be defensive of a traditional approach because you don't care to examine the reasons for the choices you've made. The pros and cons of either choice would be more helpful than demonstrating animosity toward an approach you've chosen to dismiss.

It's great that you have a setup you know and are comfortable with, but for those of us that would like to explore all options these posts are very helpful. It sucks you have to dismiss this as a ploy to be "hip".

I didnt find the parent defensive. I appears to be more of an observation. Perhaps it was edited after the fact?

It wasn't edited.

I'm not sure why 18pfsmt is overly sensitive. Maybe he subconsciously feels that his new techniques are inferior to proven approaches, and exhibits this through outrage?

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