[gnw]

You're perfectly correct, and Apache has and continues to serve as one of the most successful and widely deployed web servers to date. That said, in the context of more conveniently architecting for high volumes of traffic, Apache was conceived in a time of fundamentally different problems, and in that respect it can be viewed as a more antiquated option when scoping out the landscape of appropriate web server software.

I did not intend any pejorative connotations by calling it "archaic". I just wanted to emphasise that it has been eclipsed by newer software following different design paradigms better suited to this kind of problem.