Zeus Web Server is a web server for Unix and Unix-like platforms (currently Solaris, FreeBSD, HP-UX and Linux). Support for AIX, Tru64, and Mac OS X was dropped on 10 June 2008.^[1]

It is developed by Zeus Technology, a software company located in Cambridge, England. The original authors and company founders were University of Cambridge graduates Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss.

Zeus is designed to be a high-performance web server^[2] and was commonly used by hardware vendors submitting SPECweb99 benchmarks for their hardware.^[3] The SPECweb99 benchmark was retired in 2005 and replaced by SPECweb2005.^[4] While some SPECweb2005 submissions were made using Zeus, as of 2008 it is no longer among the top performers.^[5]

In addition to static content serving, Zeus supports 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 competes with other commercial web servers such as Sun Java System Web Server, it also claims a high degree of compatibility with Apache HTTP Server (e.g. .htaccess and mod_rewrite), with the expectation that Apache users will migrate to Zeus as their server load increases.^[6] NSAPI and ISAPI are supported to ease migrations from Microsoft IIS and Sun Java System Web Server.

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[edit] See also

• Comparison of web servers

[edit] External links

• Zeus Technology's corporate site
• 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

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