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Originally Posted by AbyssUnderground
Apache has actually been proven to be slower than the webserver software that I use. Our community and a website called serverwatch tested the software and found that apache was about 35% slower than abyss web server.
Apache has no GUI and a very high memory usage and does not nativly support any scripting languages. Abyss Web Server has a very easy to use GUI and supports AHTML, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and many other scripting languages.
Apache is also unstable, and I could quite easily take down any server running apache with a simple DDoS attack. Abyss Web Server has features to help prevent this happening. I know this because I had a friend DDoS msn.com and he succeeded quite easily. When he DDoSed me, he failed.
You should try the server and see what you think. You will be impressed.
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Like many software apache is configurable, and dispite what you think a properly configured apache on a 100mbit port (even 10mbit) would not drop as easily as a server on cable upstream. The gui part of your argument says it all, abyss is probably wasting cpu resources alone on its gui. You may have what you think is a dedicated cpu but these shared hosting environments you put down are designed to host files and so even tho they shared they will respond faster then a windows box used for desktop purposes as well. Also take into account the hardware used, a webserver might well be a dual xeon with couple gigs of ram and for sure I would rather be sharing that then have a dedicated celeron for the task, in some cases like cable forum a busy vBB site will probably have its own dedicated server since it would be too much for a shared server but hobbyists site's no. Cableforum I would guess is on unix or at least a windows server os dedicated to the task and certianly not on a cable upstream.