What is your preferred web server?

[Kalam]

monkey web server!

For serious things nginx.

 

[Kephael]

Nginx is my favorite but I don't use it without Apache.

 

[RLT]

Fido

 

[AshleyUK]

Nginx.. lightweight powerful and can be configured for 100's of uses not just a straight forward web server.

 

[Licensecart]

Litespeed fan here but due to the price I use Apache at the moment haha. I do like Nginx too but as a proxy so it's like LiteSpeed and I can use .htaccess.

 

[souen]

Nginx/Tengine. Simple setup, lightweight with the basic features I need.

 

[Hxxx]

Im surprised most say nginx. Usually Apache is the norm. I'm an Apache guy... so

 

[Servers4You]

I think I've only ever personally used Apache for my projects on a web server.

 

[jure]

I use Nginx/Apache. Powerful and good tools. 

 

[Husky]

Nginx here. Although Apache's 2.4 branch is a real contender now.

I used to be a lighty fan, but IPv6 support is shit and fucks up your configs when trying to do IP restrictions.

 

[Navyn]

Apache For me. Cause it is easy and have lots of documentation for configuration.

 

[NetDepot-KH]

Apache always and it just works!

 

[KeithVP]

As a shared hosting provider I prefer Litespeed.

For personal sites, NGINX.

 

[spry]

I'm in favor of nginx. It is indeed lightweight (low memory footprint) and over the years I got used to the configuration style/format. It also has the 'bells and whistles' that I need, especially when using it as a reverse proxy.

On the other hand, Apache is no mediocre.

 

[tk-hassan]

My preferred web server is "Apache" because I am pretty comfortable working on it.

 

[InertiaNetworks-Ryan]

Nginx for me.

 

[ModyDev]

I like lighttpd becuase it is secure/fast/light and it can handle Layer7(DDoS) better than most of the webservers.

Thanks Lighttpd!

 

[securewebcloud]

Apache is easy to config and I like the vhost options, native ssl setup and  powerful url control with mod rewrite. Nginx would be second on my list but I have had incompatibility issues a few times with certain php and other applications.

 

[telephone]

Apache is easy to config and I like the vhost options, native ssl setup and  powerful url control with mod rewrite. Nginx would be second on my list but I have had incompatibility issues a few times with certain php and other applications.

Can I enquire what issues you encountered with Nginx and PHP? And how long ago was this?

I've been using Nginx for PHP (with php-fpm) as my main stack for years and have never once come across an issue that wasn't solvable, so I'm genuinely intrigued.

 

[ModyDev]

Nginx is just a web server/proxy and if you got phpinfo working with it you will face no problem at all with php unless you can't configure php-fpm to work with nginx or there is some missing php modules which is needed by some web applications.

Regards!