Zeus Web Server is the most scalable, high-performance web server software available, underpinning business-critical solutions for the world's leading web hosting, content provider and secure e-commerce companies. Flexible web-based management, extensive application integration capabilities, and the most comprehensive range of features available from commercial server software, combine to provide fully extensible and future-proof web-based solutions.
Maintaining a reliable web presence that copes with the pressures of business today, as well as the challenges of the future, is not an easy task. Zeus understands these challenges and since 1995 has been deploying web serving architectures to companies such as Cable and Wireless, eBay, NEC BIGLOBE, and Demon Internet.
Supported Platforms
| Linux x86 |
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Linux 2.6 (2.6.8+) |
| Linux x86-64 |
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Linux 2.6 (2.6.8+) |
| FreeBSD |
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FreeBSD 5 (5.3+) |
| FreeBSD |
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FreeBSD 6 (6.1+) |
| Solaris SPARC |
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Solaris 8, 9, 10 |
| Solaris x86 |
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Solaris 10 |
| Solaris x86-64 |
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Solaris 10 |
| HP-UX PA-RISC (32 bit) |
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HP-UK 11 |
| HP-UX PA-RISC (64 bit) |
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HP-UX 11 |
Key Features
Ease of Use
The combination of an intuitive web based interface, support for clustered configuration, and centralized user management makes the Zeus interface the ideal platform for easily and cost effectively administering both complex distributed infrastructure configurations and single installations. Real-time visualization tools reveal bottlenecks or problems as they occur.
Reliability and Security
Zeus Web Server can be easily deployed within enterprise-class clusters in combination with Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager for scalable, high-availability solutions. ZWS incorporates the fastest software SSL implementation available and a variety of anti-DoS and request filtering security features.
Flexibility and Integration
ZWS supports more open standard and proprietary APIs than any other webserver. As a result Zeus Web Server will flexibly integrate with an extensive list of third-party products including many open source technologies, such as Perl, PHP,and Java.
Enterprise-Grade Solutions
Your web infrastructure is vital to your business. Our best-of-breed products and solutions are backed with comprehensive technical support andtraining, providing you with the expertise you need to deploy, maintain and expand your web application infrastructure.
Performance and Scalability
ZWS has dominated leading industry benchmarks such as SPECweb and SPECwebSSL since 1995. Its unique software architecture makes it the most scalable web server available, able to handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections, and host hundreds of thousands of sites. This performance advantage means you can extract far more capacity from existing hardware, and reduces hardware requirements for new deployments.
Hosting and Clustering Capabilities
Zeus Web Server has been designed with clustering capabilities from the outset. Its unique web-based interface allows you to manage thousands of web sites spread across multiple servers as easily as a single machine. Designed for high scalability and with a comprehensive control API, ZWS is the best choice for ISPs and hosting providers who need a reliable volume hosting solution.
Robust, Enterprise-Class web serving: who is this for?
Web Hosting Providers who need to reduce hardware footprint and increase return on investment, and provide high-performance, reliable and secure web hosting services.
Internet Content Providers and News / Entertainment Portals who are looking to underpin their online business with a fast, reliable and secure web application infrastructure which ensures quality of user experience.
Retailers, Banks and Financial Institutions who need to maximize site performance whilst maintaining the security of large numbers of SSL web transactions.
Web Serving Capacity
The growth of the Internet continues unabated around us. For any business online, the fundamental question remains the same: is the capacity of your web site up to the challenges posed by increased demand?
Performance and Scalability
Zeus Web Server has dominated leading industry benchmarks such as SPECweb and SPECwebSSL since 1995. Its unique software architecture makes it the most scalable webserver available, able to handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections, and host hundreds of thousands of websites. This performance advantage means you can extract far more capacity from existing hardware, and reduces hardware requirements for new deployments.
Efficiently serve mobile users
For slow, mobile-based traffic, the web server has a different challenge. Because each connection can stay open for several seconds at a time, the web server has to allocate internal resources for the duration of these connections. Zeus Web Server has a unique SMP-capable non-threaded/non-forking architecture which allows it to handle the huge concurrency of this type of workload, dramatically increasing a server's capacity compared to Apache.
Blistering SSL performance
Zeus Web Server contains the world's fastest SSL-stack, highly optimized for modern 64-bit platforms. The performance difference between the Zeus solution and Apache is is even more extreme under SSL workloads. The industry standard SPECweb99_SSL benchmark simulates real-life broadband traffic and the benchmark results speak for themselves - on every platform and every architecture, companies like Dell, HP, Sun, IBM, Intel and AMD all choose Zeus Web Server for their submissions; Zeus holds every SPECweb99_SSL world record, from commodity one-way servers to huge SMP monster boxes.
Built for web server farms
Clustering designed into the core
Zeus Web Server revolutionizes cluster management by providing centralized control and real-time reporting of your entire server farm via a secure communication channel. This greatly simplifies cluster configuration, maintenance and application provisioning.
Horizontal scalability, made easy
Scaling out server farms using commodity hardware can be extremely cost effective, but traditionally, administering large clusters of machines has been a time-consuming and difficult task. Zeus Web Server makes life simple again.
It was designed from the outset with clustering in mind, so its management interfaces are designed to simplify - not complicate - web site administration.
All of the web servers in the cluster are managed from the Zeus Administration Interface. This web-based control panel allows you to deploy changes to single or
multiple web sites on every machine in your cluster with the click of a button. Servers can be dynamically added or removed from your web cluster with another
mouse-click, and the intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) ensures that the chances of operator error are kept to a minimum.
Scriptable application provisioning
Zeus Web Server is easily scripted, allowing repetitive application provisioning tasks to be fully automated. The scripting interface is also fully
cluster-aware, so application provisioning scripts don't need to worry about the complexities of managing change across entire server farms.
On-the-fly provisioning
Zeus Web Server's unique Dynamic Virtual Servers capability lets you achieve true on-the-fly provisioning of websites in a mass hosting
environment. DVS is useful in environments where thousands of websites are regularly provisioned, reconfigured or removed by a website management system.
When it receives a request for a website that does not exist, DVS queries an external service to obtain the configuration settings for that website.
The query could initiate a provisioning action, such as deploying a default document root on the fly.