nginx continues its rise to the top of the web server market
We reported in January that the open source nginx web server is gaining traction and has managed to overtake Microsoft IIS in terms of the number of active sites. Netcraft released its April webserver survey and it looks like nginx's…
Apache Releases First Major New Version of Popular Web Server in Six Years
Apache has just released its first major new version of its web server in six years.
The Apache Software Foundation has just announced the…
Open Source Web Server nginx takes IIS to popularity
The web server market has been stable for ages. Year after year, open source's beloved Apache HTTP server takes first place by an impressive margin and Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) takes the silver medal. Well, it…
How to run a free web server at home on Windows or Linux with Apache
Paying for web hosting is not ideal in most situations. If you have your own website, hosting it yourself is very acceptable and easy to do, assuming your internet bandwidth allows it. Most people want…
UFIS-AS and DTP will provide a multi-airport operational database system to ADAC
UFIS Airports Solutions (AS) and Dubai Technology Partners (DTP) have been awarded a contract by Abu Dhabi Airports Company to provide a multi-airport operational database and resource…
NGINX, Apache and IIS Web Server Competitor, Is Growing Rapidly
It used to be easy for web server administrators. If you were running a Windows store, you were using Internet Information Server (IIS), otherwise,…
Using open source tools to monitor the performance of the Apache web server
Organizations view their websites as an essential part of day-to-day operations. To keep critical business functions running at peak performance, Linux system administrators need a variety of tools to help them monitor their web servers…
Fast Nginx web server alternative to Apache
Open source Apache HTTP Server, often referred to simply as "Apache" by those in the know, has long been a leader in the web server market. However, the popular open source server may face a bit of competition from newcomer nginx…
Doom in a web page
If you're waiting for a really slow build to finish, how about a little bit of DOOM to occupy you? Or how about using a compiler that converts C ++ to JavaScript?
Mozilla Mobile Team's Alon Zakai ported DOOM to run in Firefox and Safari,…
Imitate a web page using CSS
In my last post, I took an existing webpage that was created using table tags and updated it to use divs in CSS. Well it turns out the client who requested the job liked it so much he wanted the same webpage on a second site except he…
April 2011 Web Server Survey
In the April 2011 survey from which we received responses 312 693 296 sites, a growth of nearly 14.7 million host names. This is the tenth consecutive month of growth observed by the survey.
As in recent months, Apache contributed the…
Improved database / system performance: Connection.Close () vs Connection.Dispose
Browse all articles > Improved database / system performance: Connection.Close () vs Connection.Dispose
We always…
Print a web page using JavaScript
with updates from the HTMLGoodies editorial teamYou've probably been on a web page and wanted to print the page for future reference. Wouldn't it be great if you could provide your site visitors with the ability to do just that? This…
Weezo, remote access and web server for Windows
Weezo is easy remote access. The server comes as a portable version or as an installer for the Windows operating system. It basically allows a user to configure remote access to files on a computer system and run scripts on a web server…
Microsoft announces IIS Express – a new embedded web server for Visual Studio
Scott Guthrie recently announced IIS Express, a lightweight alternative to IIS and a potential replacement for Cassini (the Embedded Web Server for Visual Studio). IIS Express is intended to address reported issues in Cassini and…
How to extract any webpage information and export it to Excel
Some tools are so awesome that I can't imagine I haven't used them yet. My recent discovery is just great and I can't wait to share it with you!OutWit Hub is a FireFox add-on that allows you to extract any web page information and export…
Microsoft issues security alert on IIS web server – Redmondmag.com
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Microsoft issues security alert on IIS web server
By Jabulani Leffall05/19/2009
In response to public reports of a wild bug, Microsoft released a safety…
UK plans to monitor and record every phone call, webpage and email sent by citizens
We don't know if these plans will ever come to fruition, but the Telegraph reports that the UK Home Office is working on a database designed to store details of every phone call, email and web page citizens view. British in the previous…
Hot Skills: Apache HTTP Web Server
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The Apache HTTP Web Server lost a lot of market share to Microsoft's IIS over the past two years. But since its share once stood at nearly 80% of the market, a readjustment may have been inevitable.
In recent months,…
Extract data from a webpage into an Excel spreadsheet
Posted in: Microsoft ExcelWeb Queries are simple but extremely powerful features of Microsoft Excel that help you import live data from external websites into your Excel sheets - all you have to do is visually select parts of a web page in…
How to set up a personal home web server
by Gina TrapaniLast updated: September 2006A web server is software that runs all the time on a computer and allows other computers to download documents from it. This text you are reading traveled through a network connection from the…