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In the server market there are many players competing to gain more market shares. However, Apache is an open source web server application that is powering almost 45% of web servers all over the world. An independent firm, based in the United Kingdom, performs a survey of websites each month to know about the server technologies being used by them. In February 2019, the firm discovered that 40 million websites out of the total surveyed amount of 60 million websites use Apache web server . Apache web server maintained its popularity in the web server market since 1996. The reason behind the popularity of Apache web server applications in consumer as well as enterprise markets is due to the open source architecture of the application. The source code of Apache web server is available to anyone free of cost and developers can contribute to the code base as per their unique requirements.
It is highly customizable and provides different modules for different types of tasks to be performed by the hosted websites. The level of customizability, its modular architectures, and beginner friendly environment helped Apache to maintain its popularity over the years. The only drawback that can cause a decrease in its popularity in the future is c10k problem . As the Apache application use separate threads for each request it cannot handle more than 10,000 simultaneous web requests. The problem was solved by a competing web application known as NGINX that use the same thread for multiple requests and consume fewer resources . Further developments in web technologies to handle massive workloads by a single web server can cause a decrease in the popularity of Apache. However, a large community of developers supporting Apache project and frequent security updates will continue to be the unique features of Apache applications over their competitors.
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