What You Need To Know About Web Servers: Website Builders Daily Digest
March 2, 2009 by Clyde Dennis
Filed under Building Websites
Web servers are usually hosted on Linux or Windows servers. Linux is popular because it is free, robust and open source which makes for a large support community. Web servers are in various shapes and sized and run under different operating systems like Windows, Linux, and Unix etc. They are also range differently in prices and working.
As you know each weekday I post a daily digest of the best articles I’ve found that day on a topic that is of particular interest to website builders, buyers and sellers.
Here are the links to today’s best articles on web servers:
Read, Learn, Enjoy!
Virtual web servers scale better than native
Most real life web server workloads suffer from scalability issues such as those observed in our tests. In order to circumvent these issues, lots of businesses choose to deploy web server workloads on a multitude of one-CPU or dual-CPU machines. However, such approach leads to proliferation of servers in a data center environment resulting in higher costs in both power and space usage.
Tips for installing Google Analytics on Case and other Web servers
There comes a time in every Web maintainer’s life when the boss or client asks to see the Web stats for the past 6 months/year/5 years or what have you. Ideally you or your server administrator set this up long ago
Alternative web servers compared: Lighttpd, Nginx, LiteSpeed and Zeus
In this article we present four popular alternative web servers: Lighttpd, Nginx, LiteSpeed and Zeus. The first two are free and open source while the other two are commercial, closed-source alternatives. What they all have in common is that they focus on high performance.
We will also take a look at how many websites are actually using these web servers.
Disable NetBIOS and SMB to protect public Web servers
Serving data to users outside of an internal network, public Web servers are typically the first point of contact for an external attack. In addition, internal networking ports are the most revealing and most often attacked ports on a server. That’s why you need to make sure you’ve disabled the services that are specifically for intranets.
Free Web Servers-Can You Really Get The Service You Need Without Paying?
Believe it or not, today there are many companies that will offer you free Web servers to help you advance your business. These are becoming very popular, especially among beginning Internet marketers, because web hosting is not something that most people really want to think about too much.
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