Apache HTTP Server vs. Red Hat Application Foundations

Apache HTTP Server

Apache HTTP Server

100 Reviews and Ratings

Red Hat Application Foundations

Red Hat Application Foundations

2 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Apache HTTP Server	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	Apache Web Server (Apache HTTP Server) is an open source HTTP web server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows.	N/A
Red Hat Application Foundations	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	Red Hat Application Foundations provides organizations with components to develop and modernize their software. The technologies in Application Foundations help build, deploy, and operate applications with security in mind and at scale across the hybrid cloud.	N/A

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	Apache HTTP Server	Red Hat Application Foundations
Considered Both Products	Apache HTTP Server Rudolph Pereira Team Lead Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache HTTP Server has more stability and features than the other products. It is also more secure. Apache HTTP Server has a more developer base so it is easier to find resources on it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache HTTP Server I has a lot more features, except that IIS is more integrated in a Windows environment. But now with .net core also possible from Apache it would work anywhere really. Only in a full Windows environment where full integration is needed I would chose to go for IIS. Otherwise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache HTTP Server IIS has a clear advantage over Apache: Configuration can be done through a convenient visual editor. But, sometimes, IIS can be tricky to use for serving other things than asp.net. We had bad experiences working at scale with IIS7.5 while serving PHP websites. I know that more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache HTTP Server The comparison with other products from IBM or Oracle is difficult. These are mostly software that has to be paid for. The only fair comparison at eye level is probably the Nginx web server: It is also free and offers even higher performance. In the meantime, there is also a … Incentivized Helpful? AV Andrei Volodin Research Engineer Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache is more simple, also it tends to be more stable and it is less complicated to use, comparing with other complex solutions that are difficult to troubleshot. So wherever possible I select Apache HTTP Server for own/enterprise use also advise consumers to select the Apache … Incentivized Helpful? Moris Mendez Ing. de Sistemas Informaticos Chose Apache HTTP Server By having a similar purpose, which is to publish and manage access to services, sites, and/or web systems, I have had to implement them to analyze their qualities and virtues, but stability, the power of implementation of different solutions and to be able to expand through own … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Prather Account Manager Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache lacks the scalability and feature set of NGINX but our team was not only far more experienced with Apache HTTP Server but was relying on tools and frameworks that required Apache HTTP Server. We've recently considered moving to NGINX but the workload to migrate and train … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache HTTP Server Oracle WebLogic /Tuxedo is great when you are using it to install Oracle stack on top including other Oracle middleware and applications. Similarly, if you have IBM applications that need to be configured with IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere is better than Apache Web Server. Red Hat … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Chose Apache HTTP Server To be quite honest I often select Apache because it is the world's most commonly used web server and I have been using it for more than 20 years across many organizations. I have never been burned using Apache. Apache rises above IIS in functionality, configurability, and the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache HTTP Server Against Nginx: Mainly- it's been in the field the longest. There's not really a reason to move to Nginx on it's own. Apache has a mountain of documentation and how-tos that extend from the Foundation itself, to Individual Developers, spanning over 20 years, and most of it … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Roodman Product Marketing Manager Chose Apache HTTP Server We chose Apache because it handles dynamic content better than Nginx and it's very well supported. Nginx does handle high traffic sites better, but most of our sites do not get thousands of visitors or more a day as we are a small company serving niche markets. It is notable … Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache Web Server is the oldest among all of these above-mentioned web server solutions provide a wider range of tools and support available which is of great help when creating a web app because less investment of time and money is what contributes to the success of a project … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Stapp Sr Application Developer Chose Apache HTTP Server I have loved Apache and the brief experience I had with IIS wasn't as good. Nginx I have heard good things and though we use it heavily for our servers now without problems, I haven't configured it myself. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Longren Wordpress Developer Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache is often used in conjunction with Nginx, with Nginx in front of Apache to serve static assets like CSS and JS. Both are easy to configure. IIS is pretty cumbersome and is not as flexible as Apache. Incentivized Helpful? Hari Kumar Senior Test Engineer Chose Apache HTTP Server Add EAR files to Apache Web Server Keep portability. Web Server machine provides an option to the person to complete their own updates along with deploy their unique application. If live mirroring is not used, some users will have to wait for renewed content. More servers equals … Incentivized Helpful? WK Warren Krysiak IT Director Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache is far superior to Microsoft's IIS. The only reason to consider IIS would be for compatibility with a given software package that is made exclusively for IIS. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Coppenbarger Web & Computer Programmer Chose Apache HTTP Server Both NGinx and Apache are trying to accomplish the same thing, with the exception that NGinx is a much faster product. It allows for multi-threading which spreads out the traffic around the server. Apache is typically enabled by default and due to the high volume of websites … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache HTTP Server I've used Microsoft's IIS and IBM's HTTP server. The major and a clear advantage of Apache web server over these products is that it’s free and has no licensing issues. Being in the industry for quite sometime (oldest web server) a lot of products and customizations have been … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Apache HTTP Server Apache is terrific. Zeus is actually built on Apache and adds a mediocre at best interface to controlling it. IIS is only good on Windows. Netscape servers are probably not even around anymore, but when they were, were the absolute worst. I couldn't move my office off of them … Incentivized Helpful?	Red Hat Application Foundations No answer on this topic

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User Ratings
	Apache HTTP Server	Red Hat Application Foundations
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Apache HTTP Server	Red Hat Application Foundations
Likelihood to Recommend	Well Suited: Perfect for hosting your own website. And, I don't mean just an individual with a port of MySpace. I mean an industrial strength, commercial grade replacement for Microsoft IIS. If you need a web server that provides a feature-rich environment with support for multiple sites (hosted in the same server), with such features as virtual hosting, and modular feature design, than Apache Web Server is right on the money. Less Well-Suited: Single page, small feature-set websites. Apache is a lot of trouble for developers to set up, just to send/receive JSON strings of a few bytes. You're really better off using something smaller and faster/simpler (lighttpd for example). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Apache is Open Source, governed well (the foundation) and probably the most stable computing platform ever. Apache is probably one of the most customizable and configurable pieces of software that I have ever run across in more than 30 years of development. If there is something that Apache can not do, then you need to ask yourself; should I be doing that? The point here is that it is a solid solution and seems to only integrate other technologies that are of the highest caliber. Apache will live forever and you can not go wrong with it. Incentivized Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Configuration files are located on different places depending on your Linux distro. If you have an error on one configuration file, apache refuses to start and sometimes is difficult to know why. Security is not great by default, but making a todo list help when you configure a new server. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	I give this rating because there is so much Apache documentation and information on the web that you can literally do anything. This has to do with the fact that there is a huge Open Source community that is beyond mature and perhaps one of the most helpful to be found. The only thing that should hold anyone back from anything is that they can not read. RTFM, my friend. And I must say that the manual is excellent. Incentivized Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	The comparison with other products from IBM or Oracle is difficult. These are mostly software that has to be paid for. The only fair comparison at eye level is probably the NGINX web server: It is also free and offers even higher performance. In the meantime, there is also a paid Plus version of NGINX. This has extended support and special functions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Apache web server helped us in building client applications without much investment in the underlying server configuration which gives us the ability to start on a new project quickly and upgrade its resources as and when needed. Using software which is well-supported by a community of open source contributors makes tasks easy and affordable when need help since a couple of minutes on Google saves a couple of dollars every time and you don't need a specialized support person unless there is something significant needing to be changed. Incentivized Rahul Dhangar Web Technologist Read full review	No answers on this topic
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