I remember the time when the most widely used software in e-mail servers around the world was Sendmail. Today, we have Postfix in this position (with Exim growing and qmail being discontinued). Sendmail is hard to administrate and falls short in performance. Postfix is easy to administrate and performs well.

But why are we talking about Sendmail and Postfix in a frontend chapter? Because I want to touch on a point of relative importance to Zabbix, which is the choice of the best web server for the task of delivering the collected data to Zabbix users.

With Zabbix, history repeated itself. There was a time when we thought only of Nagios when it came to open source monitoring platforms. Today, Zabbix has taken that position in many countries.

The point is that new platforms emerge to perform the same tasks in a simpler and more efficient way. Why would it be different with the web server? For a long time, Apache was the best and most widely used solution for web...