What is going on with web servers

anarc.at

18 points·edward··7 comments

IIS dying and Nginx replacing it might be due to Microsoft encouraging the use of Nginx with .NET (the artist formerly known as .NET core) ASP servers.

.NET already has a server embedded in it (Kestrel) but Microsoft documentation points to Nginx as the solution once you've moved out of development and into the wild, when deploying on linux.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy...

I'd also assume the heavy use of CloudFlare makes gathering statistics extremely difficult.

What surprising me the most is LiteSpeed is now somewhat unknown web server. Time flies.

I'd never heard until Life speed until today. I wonder if it's one or a few major players using it?

I heard its name frequently around the time before nginx came to its fame. Maybe 15 years ago. However, I never heard any major players use it after that.

exactly. that was the same for me, "what the heck is litespeed?!" was my reaction, then i noticed it's been there for a few years already.

and the fact that it's a drop-in replacement for apache config files is just mind-boggling. who in their sane mind would want to reproduce that complexity?

I have used the commercial version of Litespeed a few times, quite impressive, featureful and fast, but configuration and management was a PITA.

Cloudflare uses nginx with their own patches (including changing the server name) so nginx usage is > 50% (w3techs) or > 40% (Netcraft).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com