August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
13h 14m
English
Content preview from Sun Web Server: The Essential Guide
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Preface
“In summary, Sun Web Server is generally two times as fast as Apache. The Sun Web Server is fast, flexible, scalable, and a downright joy to run...if performance and ease of management are paramount, Web Server is the way to go.”
—ServerWatch Review, April 2007.
THE term web server broadly refers to the server computer and the software that hosts a web site and serves the site’s content to the requesting user agents. At the very basic level, the web server software listens to the TCP/IP port for Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) requests and serves the requested resource. Web servers are a critical part of the infrastructure that powers the public Internet, as well as the private intranets of institutions and corporations. ...