This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers. Microsoft’s Internet Information Services is one of the oldest web server ...

Port80 Software (I’ve covered its fine products in several previous issues of this newsletter – see editorial links) just sent me an interesting press release. According to its recent “Top 1000 Application Servers Survey” of Fortune 1000 companies ...

The No. 1 priority for my web server was simplicity; I just wanted a basic web site that displays a "Hello World" message. I wanted to verify that a VM on Oracle Cloud would support an application like a web server and that it would allow connectivity to ...

The domination of Windows 2000 as a server operating system and the rise of Linux in the data center (unifying Unix as a Microsoft alternative) are clearly benefiting one player - Intel. As platforms are commoditized, IT organizations must drill down and ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Linux websites have better uptime and load faster than Windows-based websites. Research by WatchMouse, a website monitoring company, also shows that web server platform Apache outperforms the Microsoft IIS platform. Therefore ...

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.