Being on the rise as a web server, Nginx stands out with its speed and lightweight. Serving the thirty percent of the websites facing the highest traffic volume all around the world, Nginx is widely used especially as a static content service and a reverse proxy.
Of the same age as web technologies, the number one web server for over twenty years, Apache can easily be integrated with almost any software with its plug-ins. According to the data released at the beginning of 2016, it serves over a hundred million websites.