Apache HTTP Server (httpd)

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The web server that ran most of the internet for the best part of two decades, begun in 1995 as coordinated patches to a server nobody was maintaining.

Its original model gives every connection its own process, which is robust and flexible and expensive in memory. That cost is the constraint NGINX was written against, and later Apache multi-processing modules - especially event - answered it from the other direction.

Also known as: apache, httpd, apache web server

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