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The Best Bets for Web Development
October 4, 1999 |
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Executive Summary Web Servers Web servers are the silent partners in the growing e-commerce community. They diligently get the work done and provide a new revenue stream. Your Web administrators and developers most likely will dictate a short list of suitable Web servers, since technologies such as NSAPI, ISAPI, Java and Active Server Pages are all very different and suitable for specific tasks and applications. Our goal is to give you a good idea of each Web server's development capabilities and point you to third-party development environments when necessary.
We took a hard look at how easy these Web servers are to configure, manage and maintain. Netscape Enterprise Server (soon to be known as the Sun-Netscape Alliance's iPlanet Enterprise Server) edges out the rest of the pack because it supports so many platforms and is easy to manage. You might say it won on a technicality, though--Microsoft's Internet Information System (IIS) outperformed both Netscape and Apache in several tests, and it provided solid management features and very flexible configuration. Too bad it's only for Windows NT. Then there's Apache. Though it's clearly a cult favorite, it lacks the management tools that would make it a superior Web server. Apache's performance was adequate, and only occasionally beat out the competition.
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