<p> So there has always been a multiplicity of web server software for Unix/Linux.</p> <p> It certainly feels like I have, at some point or another, played with all of them. And I keep coming back to apache, which I&#39;ve been using since 1995, when I first became responsible for running a web server (<a href="http://www.med.miami.edu/">this site</a>, if you care).</p> <p> Incidentally: Holy crap, 14 years.</p> <p> Anyway, as I stare around the unix landscape, I see four general-purpose web servers with some mind-share: apache, lighttpd, cherokee and nginx. Yes, there are others, but they are niche players, or they are not general purpose. So here&#39;s my issues:</p>