Apache Web Server Other Advice

AH
Senior Administrator at IMCC ( Tejarat Iran Mall )

Of course, I would recommend this service because we have had a good experience with it.  

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Apache Web Server as an eight.  

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DB
Security engineer at ARCEP Togo

I'm not sure of the exact version of the solution. It's around version two. It might be 2.4 or 2.6.

I'd recommend the solution to others. Depending on the use case, I'd encourage people to use the Apache security models and to use various proxies. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

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Saurav Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior security architecture at National Payment Corporation Of India

In terms of scalability and performance, I would say that the performance is similar to NGINX. Right now, we are not using the tool in relation to our company's traffic. The tool is fine, but I haven't tried to use it much for the traffic part if I compare it with NGINX.

When it comes to modularity, for the configuration part, there is a separate module users can create for each of the shared applications, which is similar to what NGINX offers.

The product's security features are reliable, especially since Apache provides ModSecurity for HSTS. You can overcome the need for most of the security headers if you add ModSecurity packaged with Apache, which is fine for our company.

I recommend the product to beginners who want a simple base server in their company for security purposes. I have to pay if I go with ModSecurity in NGINX. If I am a beginner who wants to secure my application, then I need to choose Apache Web Server since it offers ModSecurity for free.

The benefit of the use of the product stems from the capability it provides in the form of the security module, which is called ModSecurity. For NGINX, if you want to integrate ModSecurity, it comes across as a very lengthy module. If you talk about Apache, it is very easy. I think Apache offers unique features.

Apache Web Server offers modular configuration. On multiple websites, you can host multiple domains, and it also offers the capability of modularity, which allows you to create multiple configuration modules on separate web applications.

Apache Web Server is available as an open-source tool. In the product, you can get a free signature update for the database which is the most vulnerable, and you will get an update if you are using ModSecurity. Users also get community support.

I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

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Sakthivel Veeramuthu - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Lead at Infosys

I would suggest optimizing especially the performance of the web server. So wherever my website is forecasting, it should be able to load as much as possible, and then security. I should log the IP addresses of whoever try to access my website information and probe my web content properly. So, I would block those.  I would suggest performance and security are what you need to take care of with the Apache web server.

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

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Raphael Haroun  Ikyagh - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Letshego

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten because I have to manage the infrastructure myself. 

I would recommend using the product if they're using it on-premises.

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Bharadwaj Deepak Mohapatra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at ESSPL

Overall, I would rate it ten out of ten.

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EL
Owner at Els

I would definitely recommend Apache Web Server to anyone who is considering using it. Overall, I would rate it a ten out of ten.

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WW
Owner at Lucracorp

I rate Apache Web Server a ten out of ten. I did an online course to learn how to use the product. I recommend it to users who want to build websites.

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Joonik Jang - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Team Director at BINGGRAE CO LTD

I would rate the tool a ten out of ten. 

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NB
CEO International Business at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Overall, I would rate it seven out of ten.

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SW
Founder at Simpro Tech

I rate the solution as an eight.

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KD
Managing Consultant at Cyberwise

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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SK
System Administrator at Confidential

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. Regarding advice, there is a security-related problem that depends on the web server's configuration. If you install the web server, it works, and you can put your web application in a directory that Apache Web Server reads from to display the web application.

The default installation comes with a default configuration. With default configuration comes security flaws, so you need to set permissions in the configuration file in your website directory. Before you deploy your application with Apache Web Server, you need to know how to configure a web server, how the HTTP protocol works, and how communication between the client and the server works.

If you don't know how to configure everything in a web server, sometimes your server can hang unexpectedly. Sometimes your website won't work as expected, and you will create or offer malicious persons to have access to your web server. If they have access to the web server, they can access every server in the organization because the web server is like the front door. If it's properly secured, it will be difficult for malicious people to enter your organization, but bad things can happen if it's not very secure.

Regarding features, Apache offers a module that will change the behaviour of the Apache Web Server, including some security features that will protect your application from the most used web attacks. It will act like a web firewall where you configure your Apache Web server to protect your web application from widely used attacks on the web. The feature is called Security Mode. It's a module that you can install and act as a web firewall called the WAF (Web Application Firewall), which will not only serve the client but will check their request to see or detect if they are part of an initiated attack or not.

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GK
Information Security Consultant to the CRO at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

I would recommend the solution to others.

I would rate this solution as a nine (out of 10).

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CF
VP at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We're just a customer. We are an end-user of Apache.

We haven't done any recent upgrades and therefore aren't likely using the latest version of the solution currently.

So far we are still exploring to see what are the best or the more cost-effective tools for us to integrate as there are so many properties we need to integrate with different protocols. So, we are still exploring, looking for the best approach.

I'd recommend the solution.

Overall, I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. We've been mostly happy with that product so far.

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it_user3870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Engineering with 1,001-5,000 employees
From experience I have found that Apache runs smoothly and a lot faster on Ubuntu. View full review »
NB
Senior Supervisor of Virtualisation & DevOps at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees

The first point of using these services is that you have to use scripts for deploying the web servers on the systems. They can be effectively used in many platforms and deployed for heavy duties, but tuning and improving them requires some work. Automating with scripts will help to save some time.

My advice to anybody who is implementing this solution is to deploy it on a Linux-based server and follow the best practices. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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it_user1020 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Center at a tech company with 51-200 employees
For simple websites, the Apache web server is easy to install and configure. It can even be configured with web hosting panels. However, configuring the Apache web server from the command line is recommended for complex applications like virtual hosting. View full review »
it_user1104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Expert at a tech company with 51-200 employees
The webserver survey showed by netcraft [netcraft.com] says, "Apache is still the most widely used [61%] webserver in the world of internet." Apache is designed in such a way that different components of the system can be connected together easily. The beauty is that you can replace or add a component or feature without affecting the system. Apache is a powerful tool with which you can make it do just about anything you need. As there are multiple masterminds taking caring of Apache, it will remain the king of webservers for long! View full review »
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