Apache
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
2warn against
Nov 15, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“When Apache became available we switched to it out of spite.”
switched from Netscapeon “LG says we're fake news [video]”
“The current setup has been running for 10 years now with minimal maintenance.”
runs small internal tool for ~300 userson “Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)”
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“Apache was more than adequate for what I was doing, I had no issues with it in the past, and the setup was dead simple.”
Caveats and dissent
“It was so weird and I couldn't find it in the documentation”
“Apache and NGINX busted pissed me off when creating simple ultra fast proxies, especially around web sockets”
self-hosting hobbyiston “Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really) 2 mentions
- The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening 1 mention
- LG says we're fake news [video] 1 mention
- Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby 1 mention
- Ask HN: Apache prefork under crawler load – main domains OK, subdomains fail 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) 1 mention
Also written as Apache HTTP Server. Data: apache.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“It was so weird and I couldn't find it in the documentation”
“When Apache became available we switched to it out of spite.”
“Apache and NGINX busted pissed me off when creating simple ultra fast proxies, especially around web sockets”
“The current setup has been running for 10 years now with minimal maintenance.”
“Apache was more than adequate for what I was doing, I had no issues with it in the past, and the setup was dead simple.”
“I've gone through this exercise on my own personal hobby nodes long ago.”
“perl-based cgis under Apache, running on my home server/workstation”
“I use both NGinx and Apache depending on what I am deploying”