We are happy to announce that Vesta is back under active development as of 25 February 2024. We are working on Vesta 2.0 and expect to release it by the end of 2024. Read more about it: https://vestacp.com/docs/vesta-2-development
As for now nginx works as a front-end web server. It serve static files (css,images,js, etc) and can be also used to cache dynamic pages. We plan to introduce apacheless setup this summer.