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Zeus Web Server 4.0 Zeus Technology www.zeus.com $1700 for two CPUs; $850 for additional CPUs.
Did I Mention It's Fast? Zeus is an enterprise-ready Web server software package that runs on a wide variety of Unix platforms. Zeus recently released version 4.0, and I tested the Linux version. Check Zeus' Web site to see if Zeus supports your flavor of Unix. It probably does, because it has a fairly comprehensive ports list.
Let me get this out right up front: Zeus is fast. I'm a confirmed Apache user, so I did a quick check using the ApacheBench benchmarking tool. All of the tests I ran revealed Zeus to be easily two to five times faster than Apache at serving both static and dynamic content. Replacing Apache with Zeus is like upgrading to faster hardware.
Startup
Zeus was easy to install. I downloaded the appropriate tar archive for Linux from the Zeus Web site and then saved my key in a file, uncompressed the tar archive, and ran the zinstall script. The script asked a few relatively easy questions and then started up the server. A "Getting Started" guide in a PDF file that comes in the tar file helped me make the right decisions for my system needs.
The Zeus server has two parts: an administration server running on a high port, typically 9090, and the regular Web server, normally on port 80. You can install the administration server on one machine and the Web server on another. I ran both on one system. If you want to move up to a...