What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
ZDNet

Google open sources Apache server speed module

Google has introduced an open-source tool that can double the loading speed of websites that use the Apache HTTP Server. On Wednesday Google announced that the mod_pagespeed module, which performs ...
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Google funds project to secure Apache web server with new Rust component

Google is funding a project at the Internet Security Research Group to port a crucial component of the Apache HTTP web server project from the bug-prone C programming language to a safer alternative ...
Reuters

Nginx creator launching company based on popular web server

Nginx creator Igor Sysoev is planning a company based around the wildly popular open-source web server. Sysoev announced the decision on the Ngnix blog Monday morning, writing that the commercial ...