When we talk about web servers, the story usually stops at Apache and Nginx. But the web was shaped by a long line of lesser-known daemons—from thttpd and lighttpd to Zeus, Cherokee, Caddy, and H2O—that quietly pioneered performance, automation, and new HTTP protocols behind the scenes.
Apache and Nginx power a huge share of the modern web, but they were born in very different eras to solve very different problems. This article traces their histories from NCSA HTTPd and the C10k problem through to today’s hosting stacks, then compares their architectures, strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases.
Learn how to set up fast, server-level redirects on a Plesk server using Nginx “Additional nginx directives,” including full-domain redirects to acme.com, single-URL redirects, and common gotchas to avoid.
Seeing “400 Bad Request – Request Header Or Cookie Too Large” on your WordPress site running on Plesk with Nginx? This guide explains what the error really means, how oversized cookies trigger it, how to fix the root cause in WordPress, and when it makes sense to adjust Nginx header limits.
Apache’s mod_substitute can choke on single-line AJAX/JSON payloads, throwing “AH01328: Line too long.” This guide shows how to scope the filter and bump the line-length limit (e.g., 100M) safely for admin-ajax.php.
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