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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. Isn't it more like 11 years? by Meowing · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I always thought of Apache as a continuation of NCSA httpd. Wasn't that more like 1993?

  2. quick - kill it! kill it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:quick - kill it! kill it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      thttpd is for niche applications. Take the Drudge Report for example -- all static HTML files, yet TONS and TONS of traffic. You need something that will dump the text out there, with little overhead.

      thttpd would make a great "images.whatever.com" server. :)

  3. 8 years of redundancy by billcopc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apache rocks the shiznit all right, but to me this means 8 years of being forked halfway-to-hell because the core Apache group is so adamant about dismissing user-submitted patches. Don't get me wrong, I love Apache. I just hate having to custom-tweak it to get it working in a logical way (for me). Stuff like easily-refreshed configs for hosting providers, and non-broken child spawning logic (because I'm still on 1.3x), and a few other ridiculous nags that have been ignored for the sake of "purity".

    This is going to end up something like Mozilla, where the 3rd-party forks are more popular than the original.

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  4. Re:Hip-hip Hoorah by tha_mink · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ah, I don't think they mean that XML and PHP are their projects :)

    But they are APACHE projects. From the PHP website..."PHP is a project of the Apache Software Foundation."

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    You'll have that sometimes...