According to W3Techs, the Apache HTTP web server is today's top web server technology, used today by 34.9% of all the websites whose web server technology is known.

Long before the release of Apache 2.2 in December 1st, 2005 though, Apache was already the most popular Web server in the world. Today Apache powers almost 400 million Web sites.

Apache with standalone PHP might prove far less optimal than a lightweight event-driven Web server like Nginx with standalone PHP. My mental wheels began turning.

The second most widely used Web server software is Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Services), running about 14.5 percent of websites. Perhaps Apache’s biggest competition, though, is Nginx.

VMware Labs has unveiled an extension module for Apache’s popular web server that runs WebAssembly binaries, opening new possibilities for languages and projects to run securely in Apache. The ...

Over the last month, I’ve decided to track every reported Web site exploitation or malicious Web server host. With more than 3,000 data points, the number of reported malicious or compromised ...

Gaining even the smallest performance boost from your web server can be crucial. Jack Wallen shows you how to eek the most out of Apache with the help of mod_deflate compression.

The real answer, of course, is that both IIS and Apache, if installed as directed by the developers, are relatively secure. Most malicious Web site infections are the result of administrative ...