Some parts of the platform stack are so ubiquitous that they are almost transparent. Commercialized web servers were the first part of the Internet to make the jump from service providers to ...

I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

It used to be easy for Web server administrators. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS), if you didn't, you used Apache. Now, though, you have more Web server choices ...

Choosing a Web server is not a zero-sum game, and many workloads favor a combination of the two leading names I happened to read Netcraft’s May 2014 Web server market share report the other day. We ...

The web server market has been stable for ages. Year after year, open source darling Apache HTTP server takes first place by an impressive margin and Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) ...

NGNIX's slogan should borrow Avis's iconic tagline, "When you're number two, you try harder." While Apache is far more popular, 50.7 percent to NGINX's 14.4 percent - by Netcraft's web server count-- ...

Apache is the most popular Web server and one of the most successful open-source projects of all time. Since April 1996, Apache has served more Web sites than any other Web server. Many of the world's ...

A few years ago, Apache and Micrsoft IIS dominated the web server market. A quick look at Netcraft metrics from 2007 shows Apache hosting over 50% of domains and Microsoft in a relatively close second ...