So what exactly is "People still use Apache?" saying, because it looks an awful lot like an expression of surprise at there being a plural of person not having switched away from Apache yet.

> ...[waffle]...

Missing the point.

> switching out takes time and effort, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.

That's precisely what it means: When one has a long list of tasks to achieve, the solution is basically to prioritise those tasks in terms of how much benefit they provide versus how much it costs to achieve them.

Those that wont benefit from switching or for whom it occupies too much time should not do it, unless either/both of those cases change.

Whilst there are sacrifices nginx makes in favour of performance, there will remain people who require functionality it does not provide, and Apache is likely to remain their best/only option for quite a while. Assuming they aren't in the ~15-20% that (OMG) don't use nginx or Apache.

If you're still reading anything here as superiority then I'm probably wasting my time, but at least it's making Truffles happy.

I think you'll find I can - see msg:41579.25 for an example.

> Also, ...[waffle]... to negate it entirely is foolish.

It seems I mis-judged when reducing; my original wording made it impossible to claim inferrance of that nonsense. Oh well.

Keeping abreast of the available options is a relatively simple task that all competent professionals do, and an entirely separate step from deciding whether any alternative should be even considered, nevermind actually testing it out and scheduling when a live implementation is viable and sensible.

The sole point I'm trying to get through the apparently lead-lined skulls in this place is that the remark "People still use X? Oh." is at best lame and non-constructive fanboy trolling. If you consider that X has more than twice the users of its nearest alternative, and will likely continue to have the largest user base of its class for the next five years, it makes the comment an incredibly dumb one too.

Whether or not X is or was any good is entirely irrelevant to that.

Why the fuck is it so hard to get people using their brains?

Plucked from his arse.

I don't doubt that more people are talking about those things, and they'll be more used in certain types of companies, but it's a lot lower than he thinks.

Adding the complexity of partial page loads to your website indicates that you're working on improving performance, suggesting to me that you'd be interested in a web server tuned more for performance than Apache.

Even if you've used it in the past, Nginx has improved a lot recently - it's got a whole bunch of in-depth documentation, plus some cool features that definitely make it better than Apache. Give it a spin and see what you think.

To get you started, here's an example of how your could implement those rewrite rules in Nginx...