ServerWatch Staff

“There has been a lot of traffic on new-httpd this week about whether Apache 2.0 is ready for a beta release. The prerequisite the Apache group have for a beta release of Apache 2.0 is that the code is running on the production server at www.apache.org. To this end, production testing has continued for short […]

The January 2001 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;       http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ Microsoft-IIS had its first big rise in almost a year, gaining 1.8-percent of the web. … Also making notable progress is the scripting language PHP. Top Developers Developer December 2000 Percent January 2001 Percent Change Apache 15414726 60.04 16207982 58.75 -1.29 Microsoft […]

By Karl Magsig Distance from server to client is also a consideration when planning a wireless network. Most wireless network devices have a range of about 150 meters in an indoor environment. In most cases this is adequate, but when a corporate location covers multiple buildings or is a large structure, distance limitations can become […]

By Karl Magsig For an enterprise, the costs of providing its own redundant Internet connections can run into thousands of dollars on a monthly basis. Since that’s the prime business of a co-location service provider, the vendor will most likely have the fastest Internet connection available, or close to it. Also, maintaining staff around the […]

“Last time, I showed you how to configure Apache to service multiple Web sites on the same physical server, and include server-side information in your Web page. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg – Apache allows you to do a whole lot more, and over the next few pages, I’ll be discussing the […]

“Of course, the whole idea of structuring data into rows and columns is to make it easier to get a focused result set. And a great part of that focus comes from the WHERE clause (maybe you remember this from the UPDATE and DELETE statements you learnt last time) to the SELECT statement, which allows […]

“Therefore, because of the existing code base and the existence of dynamic content that has to be generated by some algorithms that cannot be efficiently implemented in scripting languages, there is a definite need for developing programs that use the CGI, written in a traditional language like C or Fortran and compiled down to native […]

“Last September, Sun Microsystems was poised to replace Linux on Sun’s soon-to-be-acquired Cobalt Server appliances with its own Solaris operating system. But some preliminary information coming out before a press conference scheduled for tomorrow is revealing that Linux is not out of the Cobalt picture yet. ” Last September, Sun Microsystems was poised to replace […]

“Many books have been written to cover several aspects of the Apache web server. However, Professional Apache does a good job at fully explaining various aspects of Apache more thoroughly than many other books. The book starts with a very comprehensive introduction to TCP/IP and HTTP, the moves to Apache installation, build procedures and the […]

“Sun, scheduled to report earnings Thursday, specializes in high-end hardware such as servers. That’s the same market HP was counting on to protect it against faltering PC sales but that it specifically mentioned as weaker than expected when it warned Thursday of weaker financial performance.” Sun, scheduled to report earnings Thursday, specializes in high-end hardware […]

“Maybe Sun wants us to blame it on Rio. Scott McNealy and company are staying mum about Sun’s Brazil project these days. Brazil, which Sun describes as an “experimental Web application-development environment,” started out as a small-footprint HTTP stack designed to build a URL-based interface to smart cards. But Sun abruptly cancelled a briefing about […]

Great FAQ on how to make Solaris very secure. Great FAQ on how to make Solaris very secure.