Intech's experience with UNIX system management enabled us to carefully evalutate all of our options when it came to selecting a webserver platform.

Linux
Over 60% of the webservers in the world run the Linux operating system. It is fast, reliable and is available for a broad range of hardware. If performance is an issue then Linux can be run upon some powerful software platforms. Alternatively, many cheap Linux processors can be clustered together to increase processing power - a technique that is used by several major companies, including Google.

Apache
The Apache Software Foundation's open source webserver has a number of strong selling points in its favour, all of which have contributed to making it by far the most popular webserber on the Internet:

Apache Is Fast
Benchmark tests have shown that Apache is significantly faster than most webservers on the market, and although there are faster servers available at a price, Apache is used on a number of high profile sites without any performance issues.

Apache Is Flexible
Apache has a modular structure that provides it with the capability to handle any number of tasks. In addition all of the modules can be customised to handle specific requirements. These features combined with the ability to add new modules as required mean that Apache is capable of taking on any challenge.

Apache Is Cheap
Actually Apache is free. Running under the Linux operating system there are absolutely no license charges for using Apache. The software is available as a free download and is installed as part of a default Linux installation. Please contact us if you require more information.