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Is this project a web server? Or a web application? The people who have made nginx, apache, etc.. Are building web servers. 100% of their effort on those projects goes towards making the web serv...
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#1: Initial revision
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questor
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2023-10-24T22:36:18Z (about 1 year ago)
Is this project a web server? Or a web application? The people who have made nginx, apache, etc.. Are building web servers. 100% of their effort on those projects goes towards making the web server faster and safer. And they are huge built by massive communities. Are widely used so have a lot of in the wild proof of their security. A web server that is built as part of building a web application will not receive 100% of the effort... It probably won't receive 10% of the effort. It will not have 1000s of people who have worked on it. There ill not be 1000s of instances of it out in the wild being hacked, and exploited, teaching the developers what security flaws existed in their original design. A web server team will have dedicated time, and energy to finding and fixing edge cases that a web application team that roles their own web server doesn't have the time, man power, or knowledge to even dream of. TLDR: unless the goal is to build a web server. Don't build a web server. Build the web application, or else by the time the web server is built, the time for your new cutting edge web application will be in the distant past.