Eight reasons to upgrade to Apache 2.4

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  1. The Event MPM is no longer experimental and is fully supported – this gives greater performance ala nginx.
  2. Conditionals in config – so you can have for example, a generalized config across multiple hosts with slightly different requirements. Similarly, you can have config file variables.
  3. mod_remoteip – allows you to easily get the “true” client IP when behind load balancers.
  4. mod_sed – rewrite input and output.
  5. mod_auth_form – HTML login forms for basic authentication. Much easier for the end user than the unfriendly pop-up dialogue.
  6. mod_ratelimit – very basic DOS protection.
  7. mod_ssl supports sharing SSL session details across servers via memcached for performance.
  8. mod_lua (experimental) allows hooks into Apache to be written in Lua!

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