Ask HN: Are we upon the convergence of Apache, Nginx and “other”?

[httbs]

Common wisdom suggests that there are two major web servers: Apache (losing popularity) and Nginx (gaining popularity).

However, a look at the latest trends[1] suggests that we are upon the age of a "triple convergence" in popularity between Apache, Nginx, and the mysterious "other" category.

Which leads to the logical questions: What is the "other" category? How did it become so big? And does it threaten the rule of the Spartan Apachinexology?

[1]: https://www.netcraft.com/blog/september-2023-web-server-survey/

[alrs]

I have nothing bad to say about Apache, and it felt kind of weird that people were investing time in replacing it when so many of the scripting languages that sat behind it were hot-garbage, top to bottom.

I assume that "other" is "load balancers."

[ggm]

Caddy. Broke the ground with QUIC. Amazingly fast.

I jumped from Apache to nginx but the cgi thing continues to confuse me. I hate the inner protocol to pass cgi calls to a preforked engine, fast though it is.

[qup]

Bah, no need for all that understanding. Just find an old config file and change the variables.

Never fails!

[seedless-sensat]

Other: Node.js, Golang, CDNs, Cloud-managed services, etc.

[joshxyz]

caddy rocks fof automated tls and ease of deployment.

then there is haproxy, envoy, traefik that are configurable as hell.

i love em all.

[elsadek]

Nginx was always the preferred one for reverse proxy, and it has a large existence compared to Apache.

[aynyc]

Cloud services such as API gateway. I don’t think load balancers show up in the survey.

[ksec]

OpenResty / Cloudflare, Caddy, IIS, etc.