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Ask HN: What web server do you use?

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What web server are you currently using? Apache, Nginx, lighttpd, Cherokee, IIS, Custom, Other? Are you happy with your current setup or do you plan on switching to a different web server for your next project?

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For most of my career I have used Apache. Just recently I choose to run Nginx for a new project and I cant see myself going back to Apache. Just today I came across the Cherokee web server and that looked pretty slick. Does anyone have any experience with Cherokee?

At work: custom web server hiding behind a lighttpd reverse proxy. I'm not entirely happy with either part of this, although it's more the fault of the back end and all its legacy c++ issues. I'd consider switching to nginx on the front end if I could be sure it wasn't going to interfere with our e-mail setup.

Personal server: thttpd. It could log cgi scripts better. Otherwise I'm happy with it.

Laptops: thttpd, sending all requests for localhost to a cgi script. If I could persuade it to log cgi errors, it would be perfect.

For personal projects I use Apache, not because of its performance characteristics, but because it's the most common and thus when I want to do something crazy I am most likely to find that someone else who uses it has already written up an explanation of how to do it. For development I also use the Django default/debug webserver a lot.

For work I use GWS but I suspect that is not helpful to you ;-)

I'm especially interested in how/if you use one tool for load-balancing/proxy/reverse proxy, and another for more traditional page serving.

I have heard a lot of talk about using Nginx in conjunction with HaProxy, but I don't have any experience myself with that setup.

I wrote my own. I built on top of NanoHTTPD and added the stuff to properly support caching and other features I needed.

Nginx, with apache as backend with mod_wsgi. still learning how to tweak nginx

I've used a bunch, but right now it's all about Nginx, and sometimes Lighttpd

nginx. love it. no plans to switch. we have a crazy tricked out setup.

apache for running mod perl but that is being replaced within a year.

Nginx and Passenger (for running Ruby apps)

IIS - .Net all the way!

nginx passenger

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