Apache Web Server serves you, not just the web.
February 26, 2016
Apache Web Server serves you, not just the web.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Apache Web Server
We use Apache Web Server on almost all of our *nix web servers. It is being used by Enterprise IT as well as most other departments. It is a solid web server, that allows for all the customizations and configurations that are needed. It allows us to easily and reliably set up web servers with a known configuration and reliability.
- Great handling of virtual hosts.
- Works extremely well with Perl/CGI and the Mod-Perl module for fast and reliable execution of server side scripts.
- Handles serving up web pages well, a true no muss, no fuss situation.
- Sometimes a little hard to patch.
- If you're not careful with the settings, you can easily provide too much information about your server to people you don't want to.
- If you're not familiar with text configuration files, it can get a little hairy, as there is no GUI interface for setting it up.
- Since there is no cost, ROI is infinite.
- Its ease to deploy has made it simple to deploy new servers in minutes instead of hours when we need to add more servers to handle increased loads.
- Management of the servers is simplified by being able to copy configs (or sometimes the entire Apache directory) from one server to another to get things up and running in limited time.
- Microsoft IIS, Zeus Web Server and Netscape
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 fast enough.