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Why do most Web servers run on UNIX platforms?

April 26, 2017platforms run servers Unix web

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Why do most Web servers run on UNIX platforms?

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The Internet and Web evolved from networking based on UNIX, TCP/IP support from Berkeley UNIX sockets, and C language programming. All have deep roots in the UNIX system. A secondary reason is that the most popular Web server, the Apache server, is free and worked only on UNIX computers until very recently. A third reason is the availability of Apache and UNIX (Linux) as open source “free” software. In addition, UNIX server machines are robust and stable. NT servers much less so.