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...

I am not dismissing anything - they are both valid options (depending on the specific needs of their users), but neither of them is my web server of choice.

To be sure, I would accept a move to either in favour of the IIS I currently have to deal with, but given free reign... well, as it happens the one I'd go with appears to have both better performance and a smaller user base than Nginx.

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