<p> A little over two years ago, I wrote <a href="2009/01/26/web-server-software-on-linux">a post</a> about my view of the web server software landscape under Linux, concluding with how I&#39;d ended up sticking with Apache despite having tried most of the other reasonable candidates because they all seemed lacking.</p> <p> It&#39;s interesting in part because I never recorded when I moved that server from Apache to Cherokee (which I had tried to poor results, as noted in the post), which would have been not too very long after I wrote that post. Oh, well.</p>

<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>