Fault tolerance is built in to VOS and transparent.

No special effort is required to create a web server with full fault tolerance.

An open module API, modular architecture.

Allows users to adapt and extend Apache to meet their needs.

A well-known, well-tested and robust web server. Running on over 3 million internet servers, the Apache web server has been thoroughly tested by developers and users.

No special VOS knowledge or training is required because the Apache server is widely used and understood among IT professionals.

The Apache server on VOS is of a quality that VOS customers have come to expect.

Virtual domains or multi-homing, which allows the server to respond to requests on multiple IP addresses from a single physical host.

Users can host several web sites on a single machine.

Sophisticated security and access controls for authenticating users and providing access control for files, directories, scripts and so on.

Preserves security in highly-sensitive environments.

Content negotiation capabilities to automatically service web clients of varying sophistication at whatever level the client is capable of supporting.

The Apache server can work properly with a variety of client browsers.

Support for HTTP/1.1 features, e.g., hostname ID, content negotiation, persistent connections, chunked transfers (i.e., variably-sized pieces of dynamically generated content), byte ranges, proxies and caches.

VOS users and System Administrators can take advantage of these web server features.

Advanced logging capabilities to provide understanding of site usage.

Users can easily track and report on web site usage.