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by Evidlo 1868 days ago
Because the point is that I want a webserver up now. If I was running something long-term I would just use Caddy anyway.
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Yeah, I want a HTTP server up because I need an actual server to test my web app or because I want to send a large file to someone on my local network and don't want to guide them through setting up smb/rsync/whatever and just want to give them a URL.

I don't particularly care about what's least likely to fall over under sustained load or is suitable security wise to expose to the internet, because it's not going to have to deal with either of these things. Being "already installed" on the other hand is a big selling point.