A new boss comes to your company from a heavily Microsoft centered environment.

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A new boss comes to your company from a heavily Microsoft centered environment. Their webservers were Microsoft IIS servers and their e-mail was strictly Microsoft Exchange and Office 365. The shop where you are a UNIX administrator uses Apache and sendmail on Linux Webservers. Mindful of the power skills above write a short research paper for your new boss on 1) the benefits of the Apache Webserver and how it compares in cost and performance to a Microsoft IIS server. 2) Then discuss day to day operations and what Mean Time Between Failure (MBTF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) indicates. (Not Apache or IIS specific). Be persuasive and attempt to soften their Microsoft IIS bias.

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Benefits of apache webserve

1. It is a open source software, meaning it is available for public use at zero cost. Its source code can be modified to suit the needs of an organization.

2.Software on apache includes an administration control panel, customizable error messages and authentication schemes. The virtual hosting module helps you to run multiple websites from the same server. Other features such as Domain Name Service, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP), also comes with it, there are numerous third-party add-ons you can install to customize your Web server. The vibrant Apache developer community also produces frequent updates so you always have access to the latest features and security patches.

3. Apache is compatible with multiple hardware and os configuration linux, windows etc. It includes support for progamming languages like python, perl, php, etc.

Cost wise apache is free can be installed on any OS, but IIS can only be installed on windows. Performance wise apache is slow compared to IIS as it has many features which are not being used but still consume CPU time. Apache code can be modified to tweak those feature in order to improve perfromance.

Mean Time Between Failures is the average time elapsed from one failure to the next.

Mean Time To Repair is the average time that it takes to repair something after a failure.

Mean Time Between Failures = (Total up time) / (number of breakdowns)

Mean Time To Repair = (Total down time) / (number of breakdowns)

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