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Etel Sverdlov • Community Director at DigitalOcean • Have been writing about and working with nginx since 2012 • Was octocat for halloween

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65% of top article topics are the same for nginx and apache

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Nginx Questions • 24% of questions were attempting to address HTTP errors (eg. 404, 502, etc) ! 2% 2% 6% 14% 28% 48% misc php ruby on rails nodejs django css

Apache Questions • 16% were about setting up virtual hosts 10% 18% 2% 68% 2% asp misc nodejs php ruby on rails

Only 1 question that asked about nginx vs apache

There are 4 times more questions on StackOverflow tagged apache than nginx The Challenge:

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