On: Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust

[yoavm]

I suspect that people don't like changing web servers, and perhaps that's why it took the industry so long to move away from Apache. Ferron actually looks great — great performance, automatic TLS, easy reverse proxy configuration and more. Congrats on shipping this!

[hu3 → yoavm]

Yeah it surprised me when Caddy [1] started gaining traction for that reason.

It's much better than the old competition in many ways, so there's that.

https://caddyserver.com

[encom → yoavm]

What's wrong with Apache?

[yoavm → encom]

It is often slower, harder to configure, and has fewer features than Nginx, Caddy, etc.

[mhitza → yoavm]

Slower? Yes. But my impression was always that it had more features than nginx. Unless you compare it with the enterprise offering?

[throwaway032023 → mhitza]

Openresty distribution of nginx with lua scripting is game changer vs. Apache.

[yoavm → mhitza]

You are right, I'm talking more about features that the average (modern) user would need, like automatic SSL setup.

[dorianniemiec → yoavm]

Thank you for the feedback!