Zeus Web Server
Zeus Web Server was a proprietary web server for Unix and Unix-like platforms (including Solaris, FreeBSD, HP-UX and Linux). It was developed by Zeus Technology, a software company located in Cambridge, England. The original authors and company founders are University of Cambridge graduates Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss.
Support for AIX, Tru64, and Mac OS X was dropped on 10 June 2008.[1] No new ZWS releases have been made since January 2010,[2] and the company no longer offers a similar server solution. In July 2011, the company was acquired by Riverbed Technology,[3] who ended producted support for ZWS on November 30, 2014.[4]
Zeus was designed to be a high-performance web server[5] and was commonly used by hardware vendors submitting SPECweb99 benchmarks for their hardware.[6] The SPECweb99 benchmark was retired in 2005 and replaced by SPECweb2005.[7] While some SPECweb2005 submissions were made using Zeus, by 2008 it was no longer among the top performers.[8]
In addition to static content serving, Zeus supported dynamic content via CGI, FastCGI, Apache JServ, ISAPI, NSAPI, mod_perl, SSI and Zeus Distributed Authentication and Content (ZDAC), a proprietary FastCGI-like protocol. While Zeus mainly competed with other commercial web servers such as Oracle iPlanet Web Server, it also claimed a high degree of compatibility with Apache HTTP Server (including .htaccess support and a URL rewriting system comparable to Apache's mod_rewrite), with the expectation that Apache users would migrate to Zeus as their server load increases.[9] NSAPI and ISAPI are supported to ease migrations from Microsoft IIS and Sun Java System Web Server.
See also
References
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External links
- Zeus Technology's site redirects to Riverbed Technology site
- ZWS Online Support
- Examples and How-To's
- Getting Started with Zeus Web Server 4.3 PDF 0.8MB
- Zeus Web Server 4.3 User Guide PDF 3.58MB
