Rock Web Server is a new-generation web server for mission-critical web applications. It provides the following heighted features and advantages.

Performance, Scalability and Reliability

• One-thread-per-CPU architecture provides almost linear scalability on SMP systems
• Exceptional out-of-the-box performance and dynamic performance tuning on the fly
• Fault-tolerant web server with auto-restart and self-healing fault management
• Supports more than one millions web sites within a single web server process
• The number of concurrent connections is bounded by operating system resources only

HTTP Standards and Key Features

• HTTP/1.1 compliant, keep-alive connections, pipeline requests, chunken transfer encoding
• Supports IP-address-based virtual hosting and host-header-based virtual hosting
• Supports access permission through basic user authentication and digest user authentication
• Supports access control with rule configurations on source address and request header matching
• Supports directory listing, HTTP method configuration, content management and content negotiation
• Supports user-implemented filters for HTTP request/reply, access control, user authentication, ...

SSL and Security

• Exceptional SSL performance with SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLS, supports SSL client authentication
• Supports customized modules for MD2, MD4, SHA1, RSA and cryptographic algorithms
• Supports SSL hardware crypto accelerators for improved performance
• Built-in denial of services protection and self-recovery

Dynamic Contents

• Dynamic contents through CGIs, HTTP modules, PHP, ISAPI and Java servlets
• Ultra-fast and feature-rich HTTP modules for e-commerce applications
• Built-in support for PHP, either as CGI or HTTP module plug-in
• Built-in support for Java servlets through HTTP module plug-in
• Built-in support for chroot and less-privileged user for enhanced security

Administration

• Web interface and command line interface administrations
• Secure web interface administration from anywhere on the Internet
• Dynamic addition and removal of web sites without affecting any exiting web sites
• Dynamic reconfiguration of any web site without affecting any exiting and incoming connections
• Administrate thousands of web sites from a single administrative web server
• Real-time performance statistics and extensive program counter statistics
• Administrator email notification on configurable event triggers