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'''Zeus Web Server''' is a [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] [[web server]] for [[Unix]] and [[Unix-like]] platforms (currently [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[FreeBSD]], [[HP-UX]] and [[Linux]]). It was developed by [[Zeus Technology]], a software company located in [[Cambridge]], [[England]]. The original authors and company founders are [[University of Cambridge]] graduates [[Damian Reeves]] and [[Adam Twiss]].
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'''Zeus Web Server''' is a discontinued [[Proprietary software|proprietary]] high-performance [[web server]] for [[Unix]] and [[Unix-like]] platforms (including [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], [[FreeBSD]], [[HP-UX]] and [[Linux]]). It was developed by [[Zeus Technology]], a software company located in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] that was founded in 1995 by [[University of Cambridge]] graduates Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss.


== History ==
Support for [[AIX]], [[Tru64]], and [[OS X|Mac OS X]] was dropped on 10 June 2008.<ref>
Zeus was designed to be a high-performance web server since the beginning of its development in 1995. Until the first decade of the 2000s, it was known as one of the fastest and most scalable web servers available on market.<ref name="ws-zeus-zws-2000">{{cite web|url=http://www.zeus.co.uk/products/zeus3/ |title=Zeus Web Server v3.3.7 |publisher=Zeus Technology |url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000815084815/http://www.zeus.co.uk/products/zeus3/|archive-date=2000-08-15|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> <ref name="ws-zeus-zws-2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.zeus.com/products/zws/ |title=ZWS - Zeus Web Server |publisher=Zeus Technology |url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621034645/http://www.zeus.com/products/zws/|archive-date=2007-06-21|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2007/12/10/zws_platform_eol_dec2007
|title=ZWS: selected platforms - end-of-life announcement (News)
|publisher=Zeus Technology
|date=10 December 2007
|accessdate=2008-12-21
}}{{Dead link|date=February 2014}}</ref> ZWS seems to be dead since it hasn't been updated since January 2010,<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2010/01/13/zws_4_3r5_released
|title=ZWS 4.3r5 released (News)
|publisher=Zeus Technology
|date=13 January 2010
|accessdate=2012-05-23
}}{{Dead link|date=February 2014}}</ref> and the company no longer offers a similar server solution. In July 2011, the company was acquired by [[Riverbed Technology]]<ref>
{{Cite web
|url=http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2011/press_071911b.php
|title=Riverbed Expands IT Performance Business with Acquisition of Zeus Technology
|publisher=Riverbed Technology
|accessdate={{Date|2013-09-08}}
}}</ref> and ended product support November 30, 2014.<ref>
{{Cite web
|url=https://support.riverbed.com/content/support/about_support/end_of_life_policy.html
|title=Hardware &amp; Software End of Life Policy
|publisher=Riverbed Technology
|accessdate={{Date|2014-02-10}}
}}</ref>


Zeus is designed to be a high-performance web server<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.zeus.com/products/zws |title=Web Server Software |publisher=Zeus |date= |accessdate=2008-12-21}}</ref> and was commonly used by hardware vendors submitting [[Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation|SPECweb99]] benchmarks for their hardware.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spec.org/web99/results/web99.html |title=All SPECweb99 Results |publisher=SPEC |date=Nov 21, 2005 |accessdate=2008-12-21}}</ref> The SPECweb99 benchmark was retired in 2005 and replaced by [[SPECweb2005]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://spec.org/retired.html |title=Retired SPEC Benchmarks |publisher=SPEC |accessdate=2008-12-21}}</ref> While some SPECweb2005 submissions were made using Zeus, as of 2008 it is no longer among the top performers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://spec.org/web2005/results/web2005.html |title=All SPECweb2005 Results |publisher=SPEC |date=Dec 19, 2008 |accessdate=2008-12-21}}</ref>
Despite its excellent performance, it never gained more than a few percentage points (less than 3%) in the global usage of most popular web servers.<ref name="netcraft-survey-200212">{{cite web|url=http://survey.netcraft.com/index-200212.html |title=Web Server Survey |publisher=Netcraft |url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051202112130/http://survey.netcraft.com/index-200212.html |archive-date=2005-12-02|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> However, it was commonly used by hardware vendors submitting [[Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation|SPECweb99]] benchmarks for their hardware.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spec.org/web99/results/web99.html |title=All SPECweb99 Results |publisher=SPEC |date=Nov 21, 2005 |access-date=2008-12-21}}</ref> The SPECweb99 benchmark was retired in 2005 and replaced by [[SPECweb2005]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://spec.org/retired.html |title=Retired SPEC Benchmarks |publisher=SPEC |access-date=2008-12-21}}</ref> While some SPECweb2005 submissions were made using Zeus, by 2008 it was no longer used by the top [[computer hardware]] performers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://spec.org/web2005/results/web2005.html |title=All SPECweb2005 Results |publisher=SPEC |date=Dec 19, 2008 |access-date=2008-12-21}}</ref>


Support for [[AIX]], [[Tru64]], and [[macOS|Mac OS X]] was dropped on 10 June 2008.<ref name="ws-zws-eol-support-2007">{{cite web|url=http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2007/12/10/zws_platform_eol_dec2007|title=ZWS: selected platforms - end-of-life announcement|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106042206/http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2007/12/10/zws_platform_eol_dec2007|archive-date=2012-11-06|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> No new Zeus releases have been made since January 2010,<ref name="ws-zws-4.3r5-eol">{{cite web|title=ZWS 4.3r5 released|url=http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2010/01/13/zws_4_3r5_released|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121063000/http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2010/01/13/zws_4_3r5_released|archive-date=2012-11-21|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> and the company no longer offers a similar server solution. In July 2011, the company was acquired by [[Riverbed Technology]],<ref name="riverbed-buy-zeus">{{Cite web|url=http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2011/press_071911b.php|title=Riverbed Expands IT Performance Business with Acquisition of Zeus Technology|publisher=Riverbed Technology|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208012543/http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2011/press_071911b.php|archive-date=2011-12-08|access-date=2013-09-08}}</ref> who ended support for Zeus on November 30, 2014.<ref name="riverbed-zws-end-of-support">{{Cite web|url=https://support.riverbed.com/content/support/about_support/end_of_life_policy.html|title=Hardware & Software End of Life Policy (search for 'PL-ZWS-4CPU')|publisher=Riverbed Technology|url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925055448/https://support.riverbed.com/content/support/eos_eoa/stingray_products.html#WebServerandGlobalLoadBalancer |archive-date=2015-09-25|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref>
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In addition to static content serving, Zeus supports dynamic content via [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]], [[FastCGI]], [[Apache JServ]], [[Internet Server Application Programming Interface|ISAPI]], [[Netscape Server Application Programming Interface|NSAPI]], [[mod_perl]], [[Server Side Includes|SSI]] and Zeus Distributed Authentication and Content (ZDAC), a proprietary FastCGI-like protocol. While Zeus mainly competes with other commercial web servers such as [[Oracle iPlanet Web Server]], it also claims a high degree of compatibility with [[Apache HTTP Server]] (e.g. [[.htaccess]] and [[mod rewrite]]), with the expectation that Apache users will migrate to Zeus as their server load increases.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Clyman |url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,11536,00.asp |work=Server's Advantage PC Magazine Editor's Choice Winner |title=Zeus Web Server 4.0 |publisher=PC Magazine |date=2002-01-15 |accessdate=2008-12-21}}</ref> NSAPI and ISAPI are supported to ease migrations from [[Internet Information Services|Microsoft IIS]] and Sun Java System Web Server.

== Features ==
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In addition to [[static content]] serving, Zeus supported [[dynamic content]] via [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]], [[FastCGI]], [[Apache JServ]], [[Internet Server Application Programming Interface|ISAPI]], [[Netscape Server Application Programming Interface|NSAPI]], [[mod_perl]], [[Server Side Includes|SSI]] and Zeus Distributed Authentication and Content (ZDAC), a proprietary FastCGI-like protocol. While Zeus mainly competed with other commercial web servers such as [[Oracle iPlanet Web Server]], it also included a high degree of compatibility with [[Apache HTTP Server]] (including [[.htaccess]] support and a [[URL rewriting]] system comparable to Apache's <code>mod_rewrite</code>), with the expectation that Apache users would migrate to Zeus as their server load increased.<ref name="pc-mag-zws-4.0">{{cite web|first=John |last=Clyman |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,11536,00.asp |work=Server's Advantage PC Magazine Editor's Choice Winner |title=Zeus Web Server 4.0 |publisher=PC Magazine |date=2002-01-15 |url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221162707/https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,11536,00.asp|archive-date=2019-02-21|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> NSAPI and ISAPI were added to ease migrations from [[Internet Information Services|Microsoft IIS]] and Sun Java System Web Server.


== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Comparison of lightweight web servers]]
*[[Comparison of web server software]]
*[[Comparison of web server software]]
*[[ApacheBench]] program derived from original ZeusBench used to benchmark performance of Zeus Web Server.


== References ==
== References ==
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== External links ==
== External links ==
*[http://www.zeus.com/ Zeus Technology's site] redirects to [[Riverbed Technology]] site
*[http://www.zeus.com/ Zeus Technology's site] <small>NOTE: no content, redirects to [[Brocade Communications Systems]] site</small>
*[http://support.zeus.com/zws ZWS Online Support]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080211093558/http://www.zeus.com/support/index.html ZWS Online Support] <small>''(archived link 2008-02-11) newer content but not all available''</small>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20000818232811/http://support.zeus.com/ ZWS Online Support] <small>''(archived link 2000-08-18) historical documentation''</small>
*[http://support.zeus.com/ZWS_examples.pdf Examples and How-To's]
*[http://support.zeus.com/ZWSGettingStarted.pdf Getting Started with Zeus Web Server 4.3] <small>PDF 0.8MB</small>
*[http://support.zeus.com/ZWSUserGuide.pdf Zeus Web Server 4.3 User Guide] <small>PDF 3.58MB</small>
<!-- *SPECweb benchmarks comparing the performance of Zeus Web Server with [[Rock Web Server]] and [[Sun Java System Web Server]] [http://www.spec.org/benchmarks.html#web] -->


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Latest revision as of 03:24, 21 August 2023

Zeus Web Server is a discontinued proprietary high-performance web server for Unix and Unix-like platforms (including Solaris, FreeBSD, HP-UX and Linux). It was developed by Zeus Technology, a software company located in Cambridge, England that was founded in 1995 by University of Cambridge graduates Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss.

History

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Zeus was designed to be a high-performance web server since the beginning of its development in 1995. Until the first decade of the 2000s, it was known as one of the fastest and most scalable web servers available on market.[1] [2]

Despite its excellent performance, it never gained more than a few percentage points (less than 3%) in the global usage of most popular web servers.[3] However, it was commonly used by hardware vendors submitting SPECweb99 benchmarks for their hardware.[4] The SPECweb99 benchmark was retired in 2005 and replaced by SPECweb2005.[5] While some SPECweb2005 submissions were made using Zeus, by 2008 it was no longer used by the top computer hardware performers.[6]

Support for AIX, Tru64, and Mac OS X was dropped on 10 June 2008.[7] No new Zeus releases have been made since January 2010,[8] and the company no longer offers a similar server solution. In July 2011, the company was acquired by Riverbed Technology,[9] who ended support for Zeus on November 30, 2014.[10]

Features

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In addition to static content serving, Zeus supported dynamic content via CGI, FastCGI, Apache JServ, ISAPI, NSAPI, mod_perl, SSI and Zeus Distributed Authentication and Content (ZDAC), a proprietary FastCGI-like protocol. While Zeus mainly competed with other commercial web servers such as Oracle iPlanet Web Server, it also included a high degree of compatibility with Apache HTTP Server (including .htaccess support and a URL rewriting system comparable to Apache's mod_rewrite), with the expectation that Apache users would migrate to Zeus as their server load increased.[11] NSAPI and ISAPI were added to ease migrations from Microsoft IIS and Sun Java System Web Server.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Zeus Web Server v3.3.7". Zeus Technology. Archived from the original on 15 August 2000. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. ^ "ZWS - Zeus Web Server". Zeus Technology. Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Web Server Survey". Netcraft. Archived from the original on 2 December 2005. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  4. ^ "All SPECweb99 Results". SPEC. 21 November 2005. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  5. ^ "Retired SPEC Benchmarks". SPEC. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  6. ^ "All SPECweb2005 Results". SPEC. 19 December 2008. Retrieved 21 December 2008.
  7. ^ "ZWS: selected platforms - end-of-life announcement". Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  8. ^ "ZWS 4.3r5 released". Archived from the original on 21 November 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  9. ^ "Riverbed Expands IT Performance Business with Acquisition of Zeus Technology". Riverbed Technology. Archived from the original on 8 December 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  10. ^ "Hardware & Software End of Life Policy (search for 'PL-ZWS-4CPU')". Riverbed Technology. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  11. ^ Clyman, John (15 January 2002). "Zeus Web Server 4.0". Server's Advantage PC Magazine Editor's Choice Winner. PC Magazine. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
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