...and that's a good thing.

The utter waste of resources that is the mindless trendchasing of the "modern web" is in desperate need of some strong opposition.

I agree. And there are more problems than waste of resources, although that is one of them.

no kidding - looks like even the web server is old too. Seems to be Cherokee, a project which last stable release was 6 years ago

Cherokee was updated 17 days ago:

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/commits/master

Sorry, I should of said stable release

> Cherokee, a project which last stable release was 6 years ago

Its last CVE was 10 years ago[1].

It's not actually necessary for software to change if it already does what you want it to.

1: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1005...

There's quite a few more recent CVEs for Cherokee.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&res...

Especially when no one uses it.