“We subjected Xserve’s Apache Web server to the same suite of tests using Spirent Communications’ WebAvalanche software that we used to stress Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition with Microsoft’s Internet Information Server and found performance was quite strong,” Tom Henderson writes for TechNewsWorld.com.
“Xserve is not a plain vanilla server that tries to compete on price/performance. Its extra features (such as independent disk channels, FireWire 800 and high-tech-touch hard drive bays) carry a high price tag. To its benefit, it has no user-license fee, connects a variety of operating-system client types, and delivers strong Web performance,” Henderson writes.
“Xserve hosts many services, from file-and-print for a variety of client types. While decidedly Apple, Xserve puts to shame many of the Linux distributions available by tying together the diverse number of applications that are needed to administer an equivalent Linux server into a simple, GUI-driven interface. Xserve plays well in a Windows network, but also accommodates a variety of network constructions — all from a tight 1U package,” Henderson concludes.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Now if only more IT people would shelve their anti-Apple Macintosh biases and actually try the product (wait until the G5 Xserve hits the streets!), Apple would make serious inroads into the enterprise market.
Tom Henderson is an idiot. He seems not to understand (a) software apps and OSs for web servers and (b) corporate hardware requirements, not to mention pricing structures. He seems to only be thinking is black and white: Microsoft IIS and Xserve (he doesn’t even began to differentiate that Xserve is running an _appication/service_ called “Apache Web server” and is not a Xserve dependent application.)
Those who can, do.. those who can’t write their opinions on TechNewsWorld.com…
Stoopid is right.. It’s refreshing to see an MS shill label himself so honestly.
Look at the first quoted line: Henderson refers to “XServe’s Apache Web Server”. I don’t see anything to support your complaints about the article at all.
“Those who can, do.. those who can’t write their opinions on TechNewsWorld.com…”
Or spend their days trolling Mac web sites blatantly displaying their ignorance to a Macintosh community that knows better.
At least you chose an appropriate name for yourself. lo)
If I’m going to be a shill, it’ll be a Linux one.
If you RTFA, outside of the “Xserve’s Apache Web Server,” there is no other separation of hardware vs software. Not to mention, the correct term would be “Apache’s Web Server running on MacOS X” or “running on an Xserve.” Apache’s Web Server ran on Linux way before OS X was even on the market.
As for “displaying their ignorance to a Macintosh community that knows better,” I’d hope that the general Mac populace is smarter than R.V. Obviously you’ve never worked with real server structures or this wouldn’t even be an issue. Macs on desktops are great, Macs running your backoffice is just dumb (and by sales figures, I’m guessing most Macintosh-centric businesses would agree with me.) I work with Macs (hundreds of them) everyday, but we’ve always been smart enough to steer clear of the Xserve and it’s companion RAID units as poor products. Why? Because the Xserve is sorely lacking in hardware redundancy and reliability (including effective support.) Servers aren’t the same as the desktop/frontend market and the performance/price is measured differently; it isn’t a matter of how many PS filters you can run, it’s about how many nodes can be setup, data bandwidth, and security from hardware failures. I’d gladly pay 3 times an ATA hard drive cost for SCSI knowing that the failure rate is far smaller and SCSI devices carry a larger data bandwidth. As for service, Apple’s 24/7 phone call service is piss poor and when you have any hardware failures, you want someone onsite _immediately_; this isn’t like being without your iPod for 4 days because Apple needs to send it out to get fixed and ship it back to you. During any downtime, you’ll loose more money per hour than the whole server costs.
The Xserve is geared towards those with a really small business who’ve never used a proper server or those who want to stick with Apple branded products (otherwise known as those who trapped in the RDF.) If they took some of the money they spent on the Xserve’s exterior design and put it into internal product design, you might have a quality server product (afterall, if you’re concerned with the “look” of your server, you’re spending too much time with it which is always a bad thing; a good server should be able to be locked in an enviromentally controlled room and just run without any need for attention.)
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