PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF WEB SERVERS - Apache and Microsoft IIS

Andrew J. Kornecki, Nick Brixius, Ozeas Vieira Santana Filho

2005

Abstract

The Internet has become the leading means for people to get information and interact between organizations. Each year there is an increase of the numbers of Internet users. Organizations must be aware of the performance of their web servers to be able to accommodate this growing demand. Networks, connections, hardware, web servers and operating systems each have a role to play in this market, but the web server could be a bottleneck for the entire system. The goal of this research paper is to discuss the issues related to the performance analysis of web servers. The focus is on measurement technique as a solution to performance analysis. Also, the paper describes a practical method to compare two web servers.

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in Harvard Style

J. Kornecki A., Brixius N. and Vieira Santana Filho O. (2005). PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF WEB SERVERS - Apache and Microsoft IIS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 972-8865-20-1, pages 293-298. DOI: 10.5220/0001231102930298


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist05,
author={Andrew J. Kornecki and Nick Brixius and Ozeas Vieira Santana Filho},
title={PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF WEB SERVERS - Apache and Microsoft IIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2005},
pages={293-298},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001231102930298},
isbn={972-8865-20-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF WEB SERVERS - Apache and Microsoft IIS
SN - 972-8865-20-1
AU - J. Kornecki A.
AU - Brixius N.
AU - Vieira Santana Filho O.
PY - 2005
SP - 293
EP - 298
DO - 10.5220/0001231102930298