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This was an interesting security patch that marked the first time in my memory that updating Apache led to an immediate regression. A few hours after taking this upgrade many systems experienced such strange timeout errors. Connections were low and couldn't pinpoint the misleading behavior that looked like a slowloris attack, with no connections.
Half a day later with no resolution in research a new patch [1] was available and problem resolved.
[1] https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/8720881b0634383145e87...
About a decade ago nginx stormed onto the scene with event based multi-processing, and even though Apache has had mpm-event became a thing not too long after that, Apache retained mpm-prefork and then mpm-worker as defaults for a very long time, and lost a lot of market share.
A lot of people still retain the notion that nginx is "just faster" or "just better" which is not necessarily the case. Apache with mpm-event is just fine for most applications.
There are other reasons to use nginx, and there are other reasons to use Apache. Both are fine, and I hear https://caddyserver.com/ is coming in hot!