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Apache Week: Apache in the news

Thanks to Larry J. Blunk for
this link.

“PC Magazine tested four secure servers in Serve Your Site. The
servers under test were Netscape Enterprise Server, Sun’s Web
Server, Microsoft IIS and Stronghold (an Apache derivative). The
operating systems used where Windows NT, Solaris and Linux.”

“They ignored the fact that secure Apache (that is, Apache plus
mod_ssl or Apache-SSL) is now at 21%, and that if all Apache
derived secure servers are counted they have about the same market
share as IIS.”

“… they tested using CGI under Stronghold against ISAPI and
NSAPI extensions to IIS and Netscape. Naturally the ISAPI and NSAPI
versions performed much better than using CGI. It is strange that
they did not test the various Apache methods of getting
high-performance dynamic content, such as PHP, mod_perl or the
Apache API…”

Complete
story

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