Post #2431259
2026-01-14 03:40 UTC
FWIW I don’t find Apache dated at all. It’s mature software, yes, but it’s also incredibly powerful and flexible, and regularly updated and improved. It’s probably not the fastest by any benchmark, but it was never intended to be (and for self-hosting, it doesn’t need to be). It’s an “everything and the kitchen sink” web server, and I don’t think that’s always the wrong choice. Personally, I find Apache’s litlte-known and perhaps misleadingly named Managed Domains (mod_md/MDomain) by far the easiest and clearest way to automatically manage and maintain SSL certificates, it’s really nice and worth looking into if you use Apache and are using any other solution for certificate renewal.
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@just_another_person@lemmy.world 2026-01-14 04:13
I’ll be honest with you here, Nginx kind of ate httpd’s lunch 15 years ago, and with good reason. It’s not that httpd is “bad”, or not useful, or anything like that. It’s that it’s not as efficient and fast. The Apache DID try to address this awhile back, but it was too late. All the better features of nginx just kinda did httpd in IMO. Apache is fine, it’s easy to learn, there’s a ton of docs around for it, but a massively diminished userbase, meaning less up to date information for new users to find in forums in the like.