Say goodbye to Microsoft and IIS as PCSTATS shows you the ropes of hosting a website with Apache from a home PC! - Version 1.0.0
Apache has been around since 1995 and is the main alternative to Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) web hosting technology on the Windows platform. When it comes to the Internet as a whole, Apache may actually be the preferred web hosting technology, since most professional web-hosting operations use versions of Apache on the Linux operating system to host commercial client websites.
The popularity of Apache can be directly attributed to three things. For one, the program's general simplicity and ease of use make basic web hosting extremely easy. Secondly, like Internet Explorer, Microsoft's IIS technology suffers and has suffered historically from the fact that it is directly linked into the Windows operating system. This opens it up for a constantly evolving host of security issues, many of which can prove devastating if not patched. Apache is a standalone program, not patched into the OS on which it runs, and is also blessed with simple but effective security measures.
Finally, Apache is an open source program, and is freely available on several platforms including Linux and Windows. For users of Windows operating systems that do not include IIS (like Windows XP Home), Apache provides the simplest and probably best means to get your content onto the web.
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