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Eight Years Of Apache

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-lot-of-hits dept.

Kyle Hamilton writes "The Apache Software Foundation today announced that its HTTP Server platform has reached a milestone of eight consecutive years of World Wide Web technology leadership. Since its first release in April of 1995, the Apache HTTP Server has become as pervasive as the Web itself. According to two separate and independent surveys, the Apache HTTP Server, which originally established itself as the leading web server technology in April 1996, continues to acquire even greater market, growing faster than all other competing web server technologies. Achieving eight straight years of technology leadership confirms that the open source model works. Apache is now successfully deployed in a diverse set of environments, from large commercial entities to small nonprofit organizations. We are grateful to the community for their continued support and participation in the development process, said Sander Striker, Vice President of the Apache HTTP Server Project. We are firmly committed to continuing to provide the most accessible and standards-compliant Web server platform in existence."

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  1. Hip-hip Hoorah by agent+dero · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Apache HTTP project is a great project at that, but let's not forget apache's other AWESOME projects, Ant, jakarta, XML, PHP.
    The List

    Thanks to the success of the HTTP project, we've gained these, sounds like we should 'pay' tribute: http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

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  2. Re:quick - kill it! kill it! by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm one of many who has dropped Apache in favor of thttpd.

    So the next time you're setting up a webserver and Apache is being a pain in the ass - kill it and switch to thttpd. You'll thank me.

    Well, thttpd is certainly faster and probably easier for images and other static files, but it is also certainly not faster for PHP and many other dynamic types. It also doesn't support SSL, which is a must in many cases.

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  3. Re:quick - kill it! kill it! by ovoskeuiks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The comparison chart on their website -> Last updated 12jul98. It'll take a little more than a 6 year old chart to convince me it's a superior webserver

  4. Re:Milestone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    well, in octal, the OP is correct since
    010 == 0 * 8^0 + 1 * 8^1 == 8 base10


    note that in C, octal numbers are indicated by a 'zero' prefix. whcih, incidentally, bit me once when i tried to be tidy and write stuff like
    #define KILO (1000)
    #define CENTI (0100)
    #define DECA (0010)