23. Web Hosting
Today, UNIX and Linux systems are the predominant platform for serving web content and web applications. They are ideal systems for this task because they were designed from the ground up as preemptive, multitasking systems. They can handle a high volume of web requests, and they can do it efficiently, securely, and reliably.
In some respects, web-based applications have actually simplified sysadmins’ jobs. “Web 2.0” features like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and dynamic HTML bring users the functionality and responsiveness of locally installed applications but relieve sysadmins of a multitude of deployment headaches: ...
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