Zeus Web Server

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Zeus Web Server is a discontinued proprietary high-performance web server for Unix and Unix-like platforms (including Solaris, FreeBSD, HP-UX and Linux). It was developed by Zeus Technology, a software company located in Cambridge, England that was founded in 1995 by University of Cambridge graduates Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss.

History

Zeus was designed to be a high-performance web server since the beginning of its development (1995) and since a few years later till the first decade of 2000s it was known as one of the fastest and most scalable web servers available on market.[1] [2]

Despite its excellent performance, it never gained more than a few percentage points (less than 3%) in the global usage of most popular web servers.[3] However, it was commonly used by hardware vendors submitting SPECweb99 benchmarks for their hardware.[4] The SPECweb99 benchmark was retired in 2005 and replaced by SPECweb2005.[5] While some SPECweb2005 submissions were made using Zeus, by 2008 it was no longer used by the top computer hardware performers.[6]

Support for AIX, Tru64, and Mac OS X was dropped on 10 June 2008.[7] No new ZWS releases have been made since January 2010,[8] and the company no longer offers a similar server solution. In July 2011, the company was acquired by Riverbed Technology,[9] who ended support for ZWS on November 30, 2014.[10]

Features

In addition to static content serving, Zeus supported dynamic content via CGI, FastCGI, Apache JServ, ISAPI, NSAPI, mod_perl, SSI and Zeus Distributed Authentication and Content (ZDAC), a proprietary FastCGI-like protocol. While Zeus mainly competed with other commercial web servers such as Oracle iPlanet Web Server, it also included a high degree of compatibility with Apache HTTP Server (including .htaccess support and a URL rewriting system comparable to Apache's mod_rewrite), with the expectation that Apache users would migrate to Zeus as their server load increased.[11] NSAPI and ISAPI were added to ease migrations from Microsoft IIS and Sun Java System Web Server.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Zeus Web Server v3.3.7". Zeus Technology. Archived from the original on 15 August 2000. Retrieved 18 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "ZWS - Zeus Web Server". Zeus Technology. Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Web Server Survey". Netcraft. Archived from the original on 2 December 2005. Retrieved 18 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "All SPECweb99 Results". SPEC. 21 November 2005. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  5. ^ "Retired SPEC Benchmarks". SPEC. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  6. ^ "All SPECweb2005 Results". SPEC. 19 December 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  7. ^ "ZWS: selected platforms - end-of-life announcement". Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ "ZWS 4.3r5 released". Archived from the original on 21 November 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  9. ^ "Riverbed Expands IT Performance Business with Acquisition of Zeus Technology". Riverbed Technology. Archived from the original on 8 December 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ^ "Hardware & Software End of Life Policy (search for 'PL-ZWS-4CPU')". Riverbed Technology. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  11. ^ Clyman, John (15 January 2002). "Zeus Web Server 4.0". Server's Advantage PC Magazine Editor's Choice Winner. PC Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 February 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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