Mastering Intranet and Internet Technology

• Summary
• Hardware
• Software
• Administration
• Selection Criteria
• Client Software
• WWW Server Sources

Summary

• Server provides files.
• Server itself is relatively simple.

Hardware

Software

Administration

Selection Criteria

• Host Interface
• Management
• Communications Security
• Performance

  Web Server Performance Benchmarks

  Parameter	Unit	Comments
  Maximum Concurrent Users	Users	Can be hard-coded, or a practical limit determined by the performance of the software, O/S, hardware and communications system
  Average Throughput	Bytes per Second per User
  Connection Rate	Connections per Second
  Response Time	Seconds

Client Software

• Netscape
• Mosaic
• MS Explorer
• Spry Mosaic

WWW Server Sources

• WebSite from O'Reilly
  
  

• Netscape WWW Server
  
• Microsoft Internet Information Server
• Novell Web Server
• Appache Web Server - the most popular web server on the net.
• etc.

	Web Author: Geoff May	Last Update: 16/04/99
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