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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