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NOLS web services are powered by Intel-based UNIX servers running Apache, PHP4, Perl, and MySQL. We chose this configuration for scalibility, speed, and reliability. As part of our commitment to choosing the best components regardless of cost, we did research and concluded that despite the claims of many monopolistic companies, Unix and Apache are more secure, stable, and efficient than the competition, even when compared to significantly more expensive offerings.
From the Apache FAQ:
"For an independent assessment [of Apache compared to other web serving applications [such as Microsoft IIS], see Web Compare.
Apache has been shown to be substantially faster, more stable, and more feature-full than many other web servers. Although certain commercial servers have claimed to surpass Apache's speed (it has not been demonstrated that any of these "benchmarks" are a good way of measuring WWW server speed at any rate), we feel that it is better to have a mostly-fast free server than an extremely-fast server that costs thousands of dollars. Apache is run on sites that get millions of hits per day, and they have experienced no performance difficulties."
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