According to the October Netcraft web server survey, Apache saw the largest increase of active sites this month, gaining 1.8 million, while NGINX gained 400,000, the second-largest growth.

Apache and Nginx are the big names on the Linux side, with a smattering of other options such as Lighttpd and Cherokee. On Windows, you can run Apache and a few others, but the overwhelming ...

Nginx, and every other server for that matter, is far from dominating Apache in the market. However, it is a stable, fast alternative to Apache and competition is always good in software.

According to W3Techs’ figures, Nginx runs 38.8 percent of the top 1,000 sites, with Apache Httpd running 33.7 percent and Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) running 9.2 percent.

When it comes to Web servers, the big two are Apache and Internet Information Server, but their faster, more nimble rival, NGINX is catching up with them.

Apache with standalone PHP might prove far less optimal than a lightweight event-driven Web server like Nginx with standalone PHP. My mental wheels began turning.

The Netcraft data, which looks pretty linear to our eyes, would seem to suggest that as 2016 comes to a close, NGINX will be the most popular web server in use on the top 1 million busiest sites, but ...

You do that by configuring NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache. With this setup, NGINX will listen for all incoming requests to port 80 and pass them on to Apache, which is listening in on port 8080.