Web Server Feature Comparison
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Zeus Web Server v4 offers a wide range of features, shown below in comparison to its main competitors. In addition to this multitude of features, Zeus Web Server excels in terms of reliability, efficiency, security and overall performance. The feature comparison is correct at time of writing, based on information available from respective vendors' web sites. |
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| Key Features | Zeus Web Server v4 | Sun Java Web Server 6.1 | Apache 1.3/2.0 | Microsoft IIS | |
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| HTTP/1.1 support (incl. KeepAlives and Pipelining) |
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| Typical Hosting Capability (# sites) | 1 million+ | 1,000+ | <1,000 | 5,000 | |
| Dynamic reconfiguration without restart | |
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| Templated web site deployment | |
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| On-demand web site deployment | |
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| High scalability process model | |
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| Optimization for Solaris Network Cache Accelerator (NCA) | |
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| Linear SMP scalability | |
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| Configurable log format | |
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| Customisable error pages | |
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| Dynamic log rotation | |
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| Bandwidth throttling | |
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| Basic Server-Parsed HTML (SSI) support | |
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| Dynamically-generated SSI support | |
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| Automated self-diagnostics | |
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| Anti-Denial-of-Service protection | |
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| HTTP request filtering | |
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| Malformed HTTP header protection | |
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| Integrated attack monitoring and logging | |
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| Integrated SSL v2 and v3 | |
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| Hardware crypto support | |
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| SSL certificate management | |
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| Clustered SSL certificate deployment | |
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| Web-based user interface | |
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| Secure, web-based remote management | |
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| Clustered web site management | |
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| Group-based web site configuration | |
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| Integrated licence management | |
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| Configuration wizards | |
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| Scriptable (command-line) configuration tools | |
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| Real-time web-based statistics | |
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| SNMP monitoring | |
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| Delegated user management (htaccess) | |
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| Scalable subserver support | |
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| ISAPI filters | |
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| ISAPI extensions | |
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| FastCGI | |
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| CGI | |
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| Generic FastCGI/CGI handler support | |
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| Secure CGI sandboxing | |
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| Limit CGIs by CPU or memory use | |
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| LDAP | |
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| IP address authentication | |
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| DNS name authentication | |
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| User-based authentication | |
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| Referrer-based authentication | |
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| Perl support | |
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| Basic PHP support | |
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| Secure setuid PHP support | |
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| XML support | |
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| Active Server Pages (ASP) support | |
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| Request rewriting | |
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| Access Control APIs | NSAPI ISAPI ZDAC FastCGI CGI LDAP mod_perl |
NSAPI NSACL LDAP |
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| Basic Microsoft® FrontPage™ support | |
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| Secure sandboxed Microsoft® FrontPage™ support | |
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| Subserver Microsoft® FrontPage™ support | |
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| Netscape™ Composer publishing support (PUT) | |
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| WebDAV support | |
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| Web Folders (WebDAV) | |
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| PICS ratings | |
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| Static and dynamic content compression | |
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| Search engine | |
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| Java Servlets | |
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| JavaServer Pages (JSP) | |
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| Native JVM support | |
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| Minimum RAM | 32MB | 64MB per CPU | 256MB | 256MB | |
| Recommended disk space | 10MB | 110MB | 12MB | 2GB+ | |
| Platforms Supported |
FreeBSD HP-UX Linux x86 Linux x86_64 Solaris SPARC Solaris x86 Solaris x86_64 |
HP-UX 11.0 HP-UX 11.0 IA64 (through binary compatibility) Linux x86 Solaris SPARC Windows NT/2000 |
AIX BSDi Compaq Tru64 FreeBSD HP-UX HP-UX IA64 IRIX Linux x86 Linux x86_64 Linux IA64 Linux MIPS Linux Alpha Linux PPC MacOSX OpenBSD SCO Solaris SPARC Solaris x86 Solaris x86_84 |
Windows NT/2000 | |
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