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"Its community is its most valuable feature. Solving problems is easier on Apache because so many people know this product.""Most of the features I liked were related to the performance during peak hours.""It is scalable.""The solution's most valuable feature is reporting.""The product's initial setup phase is straightforward.""The product is very cheap and stable.""It's very stable, and it hosts one of the biggest of many biggest web applications in the world.""It's reliable, configurable and generally secure."

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"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the central console, that allows you to see all of the activated and deactivated computers."

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"A monitoring interface would be great for this product. The monitoring dashboards for Apache's models are not included in the basic installation. You can install the basic monitoring model, then connect this model to another monitoring system.""I want the user interface to be more user-friendly.""Lacks integration with some cloud solutions.""For NGINX, I think it has NGINX Management Suite, which is GUI-based and allows you to manage your configuration via the user interface, but Apache fails to offer such capabilities to users.""Adding a reverse proxy to Apache Web Server would be a significant improvement.""Things change very fast. We're always on the lookout for better approaches and tools. If the solution falls behind, we may have to switch.""There is a security-related problem that depends on the web server's configuration.""By optimizing the infrastructure to allow the webserver to directly handle queries from memory—particularly by prioritizing the storage of queries in memory and processing them through the web server interface—I could potentially cut down the required instances from five hundred to two hundred."

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"The stability of the solution needs improvement."

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  • "The apache software is free, open-source."
  • "It is a free-of-cost solution."
  • "There is no licensing cost for the product."
  • "It is an open-source solution."
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    Top Answer:Most of the features I liked were related to the performance during peak hours.
    Top Answer:Some free licenses come under that Apache license. So I don't think we need to pay anything for it.
    Top Answer:Enhanced security features would be great. In future releases, I would like to see better server optimization.
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    Apache HTTP Server
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    Overview

    The Apache HTTP Server Project was founded in 1995 by a group of webmasters, known as The Apache Group, with the aim of developing robust, richly-featured, freely-available and commercial-standard Web (HTTP) server source code. The result was Apache Web Server or Apache HTTP Server, which is an open-source public-domain web server.

    This collaborative project has been enhanced ever since with contributions from the core development team and other volunteers situated all over the globe. Also, hundreds of users of this open-source web server have contributed code, ideas, and documentation. The project falls under The Apache Software Foundation, which manages many open-source projects.

    Windows Process Activation Service generalizes the Internet Information Services (IIS) process model, removing the dependency on HTTP. All the features of IIS that were previously available only to HTTP applications are now available to applications hosting Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services, by using non-HTTP protocols. IIS 7.0 also uses Windows Process Activation Service for message-based activation over HTTP.
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    Apache Web Server is ranked 3rd in Application Infrastructure with 21 reviews while Windows Process Activation Services is ranked 23rd in Application Infrastructure. Apache Web Server is rated 8.6, while Windows Process Activation Services is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of Apache Web Server writes "Has good security, speed and traffic handling features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Process Activation Services writes "Central console enables us to see all of the activated and deactivated computers but it has poor alerts and frustrating technical support". Apache Web Server is most compared with IIS, NGINX Plus, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and Zend PHP Engine, whereas Windows Process Activation Services is most compared with Microsoft .NET Framework and IIS.

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