It's time for me to start looking at NGINX as an alternative and supplement to Apache, and in the context of running on a Slackware VPS instance. I'm not finding much documentation so any pointing out of sources would be useful.

The Slack Docs Wiki has some Nginx based information in its ARM section: https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:nginx but the content is valid also for non-ARM platforms.

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my VPS is saying "Hello, world".../

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my observations so far -- Apache is a gigantic and complex mass of tangled code with innumerable switches and functions modules and options and many different implementations and coding flavours-- if one is using Debian/Ubuntu; or Centos; or Slackware; or some other OS, it's a different way of doing things for each OS. Nginx seems to be quite compatible with the Slackware philosophy and it seems to "just work"---while with Apache I was spending very difficult hours looking for "why doesnt this code work"? I got my switchover from http (bad; "insecure") to https ("safe" & well accepted among the brethren and cistern)[certs and keys installed yay] accomplished in a jiffy with no interminable decoding of equivocal and esoteric error messages. It may not hold out as well as it started but it's a glorious start and bad news for Apache it seems.

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