The most important aspect of webserver performance is the amount of available RAM. This means that as you set up your server it is important to prevent the server from using the swap file as this will dramatically slow down the server.

Apache is based on the code developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and has developed into the most secure and stable web server today. In fact, Apache has the major share of Internet web sites.

Recently I have faced a question in an interview about difference between application server and web server. While in interview I have some what explained the difference by intuition but was not very clear about the answer on theoretical grounds.

This is a five part series that shows you how to tune your web server for best performance. The series covers partition placement, CPU, I/O, Memory and Network.