Mainstream
The research described here is work in progress. It is funded in part by Object Technologies International and by Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y.

Overview

For a good overview of current WWW technology, Serverwatch is a terrific resource. It is intended to aid Webmasters in their search for the right Web technology, including supporting tools and products.

Benchmarks

Below are links to Web server benchmarking utilities and to other sources of information for benchmarking results.
WebStone
Considered the standard benchmarking tool for Web servers. It was heavily influenced by the design of LADDIS, an NFS benchmarking tool.
SPECweb96
From the makers of LADDIS. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) specialize in performance measurement.
Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation
Also known as ZDBOp, they develop and support the publicly available, core benchmark programs that all ZD publications use.
WebCompare
Provides in-depth information on server software for the World Wide Web. Included are pointer to other benchmarking efforts.
Zeus performance
The makers of the perhaps the best performing commercial Web server have results supporting their claim. Included are discussions about why they implemented their own benchmarking client rather than using WebStone.

Protocols

Listed here are reference documentation to protocols which we intend to fully implement into the Web server.
HTTP/1.0
The current standard protocol of Web servers and clients.
HTTP/1.1
The next generation of HTTP, supporting persistent connections and other goodies.

Web Servers

These are the homepages of the servers we use in our test-suite, as well as other servers, which we intend include in our suite in future benchmarking tests.
NCSA HTTPd
One of the original HTTP servers.
Apache
Currently the de-facto standard Web server. Freely available.
Phttpd
A extremely well designed freely available high-performance Web server. Currently only supported on Solaris 2.4+, but is being POSIX-fied.
Jigsaw
CERN's new HTTP/1.1 compliant Web server. Written in Java, freely avaiable.
Java Web Server
Formerly named Jeeves. JavaSoft's Web server implementation.
BOA
A small single threaded concurrent HTTP server. Freely available.
thttpd
The Tiny/Turbo/Throttling HTTP server. Not full featured, commercial. Allows server administrator to specify maximum byte transfer rate on groups of URLs.
Roxen
A commercial Web server written in Pike, and interpreted language. Formerly known as Spinner.
Zeus
A commercial Web server with excellent performance.
Netscape Enterprise
Netscape's feature rich Web server, supported on both NT and UNIX systems.
James Hu <jxh@despammed.com>
Last modified: Wed Feb 26 16:25:41 CST 1997