Apache v.2.4 is released!
Let us know if we can help your organization setup, configure, and deploy the most popular web server on the Internet since 1996. It has evolved to address the challenges posed by nimbler competitors that have found a “more natural” fit in the cloud computing paradigm.
On the 21st of February, 2012, the Apache Software Foundation celebrated its 17th Anniversary with the release of Apache v2.4. Relevant cloud features include1:
- Improved performance (lower resource utilization and better concurrency)
- Reduced memory usage
- Asyncronous I/O support
- Dynamic reverse proxy configuration
- Performance on par, or better, than pure event-driven Web servers
- More granular timeout and rate/resource limiting capability
- More finely-tuned caching support, tailored for high traffic servers and proxies.
