Systems Infrastructure – Web Servers & Application Servers
Web Servers:
When visitors type in your company’s URL, the web server receives the request from the browser and serves up the page. Any computer that hosts your website must have a web server software to allow the website to be accessed. You can make any computer serve this function by installing the web server software and connecting the computer to the internet or an intranet. When choosing a web server, there are several factors to take into consideration, such as how it works with your current operating system and its compatibility with your website publishing and programming tools.
System Epic has experience with multiple web servers being used on multiple platforms. See our Projects Page for some samples of our work on web server software and web server applications. We can analyze or discuss your needs from serving a simple web page to providing guidance to deploying a highly scalable web farm.
Application Servers:
Application servers take a load off your developers. They handle the technical issues and allow developers to focus on the important business reasons for the establishment of the development project in the first place. Application servers, for example, host your Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). APIs deliver a defined set of procedures or protocols in a particular programming language, that are in turn provided by operating system services. This is what helps to build applications. The Application Server brings up the API to expose its processes to third-party applications. Developing your application server can be quite complicated. Issues that can arise are system correspondence, getting admission to all your databases, load balancing and the list goes on.
- IIS 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
- Apache 1.3.33, 2.0.40, 2.0.55, 2.2
- Tomcat 3.3, 5.5
- Java 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
- Jboss Application Server
- iPlanet (Netscape) Application Server
- iPlanet (Netscape) Web Server
- iPlanet (Netscape) Calendar Server
- Microsoft DCOM with MSMQ