| The two most popular Web Server Software packages are Apache and Internet Information Server. Apache is most often found on one of the UNIX operating systems, Linux, BSD or Solaris. Internet Information Server is only available on Windows NT or 2000 machines.
Apache is an Open Source Software project supported by the Apache Foundation. It is maintained and developed by a group of volunteers. Apache has a very wide user group and has an amazing variety of free modules, scripts and patches available for it. These features as well as its price - Free - make it a very popular choice for hosting.
Internet Information Server is Microsoft's Web Server included with Windows NT or 2000 Server. It is very fast, and reasonably stable |
