Editing Zeus Web Server (section)

== History ==
Zeus was designed to be a high-performance web server since the beginning of its development in 1995. Until the first decade of the 2000s, it was known as one of the fastest and most scalable web servers available on market.<ref name="ws-zeus-zws-2000">{{cite web|url=http://www.zeus.co.uk/products/zeus3/ |title=Zeus Web Server v3.3.7 |publisher=Zeus Technology |url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000815084815/http://www.zeus.co.uk/products/zeus3/|archive-date=2000-08-15|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref><ref name="ws-zeus-zws-2007">{{cite web|url=http://www.zeus.com/products/zws/ |title=ZWS - Zeus Web Server |publisher=Zeus Technology |url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621034645/http://www.zeus.com/products/zws/|archive-date=2007-06-21|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref>

Despite its excellent performance, it never gained more than a few percentage points (less than 3%) in the global usage of most popular web servers.<ref name="netcraft-survey-200212">{{cite web|url=http://survey.netcraft.com/index-200212.html |title=Web Server Survey |publisher=Netcraft |url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051202112130/http://survey.netcraft.com/index-200212.html |archive-date=2005-12-02|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> However, it was commonly used by hardware vendors submitting [[Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation|SPECweb99]] benchmarks for their hardware.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spec.org/web99/results/web99.html |title=All SPECweb99 Results |publisher=SPEC |date=Nov 21, 2005 |access-date=2008-12-21}}</ref> The SPECweb99 benchmark was retired in 2005 and replaced by [[SPECweb2005]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://spec.org/retired.html |title=Retired SPEC Benchmarks |publisher=SPEC |access-date=2008-12-21}}</ref> While some SPECweb2005 submissions were made using Zeus, by 2008 it was no longer used by the top [[computer hardware]] performers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://spec.org/web2005/results/web2005.html |title=All SPECweb2005 Results |publisher=SPEC |date=Dec 19, 2008 |access-date=2008-12-21}}</ref>

Support for [[AIX]], [[Tru64]], and [[macOS|Mac OS X]] was dropped on 10 June 2008.<ref name="ws-zws-eol-support-2007">{{cite web|url=http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2007/12/10/zws_platform_eol_dec2007|title=ZWS: selected platforms - end-of-life announcement|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106042206/http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2007/12/10/zws_platform_eol_dec2007|archive-date=2012-11-06|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> No new Zeus releases have been made since January 2010,<ref name="ws-zws-4.3r5-eol">{{cite web|title=ZWS 4.3r5 released|url=http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2010/01/13/zws_4_3r5_released|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121121063000/http://support.zeus.com/zws/news/2010/01/13/zws_4_3r5_released|archive-date=2012-11-21|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref> and the company no longer offers a similar server solution.  In July 2011, the company was acquired by [[Riverbed Technology]],<ref name="riverbed-buy-zeus">{{Cite web|url=http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2011/press_071911b.php|title=Riverbed Expands IT Performance Business with Acquisition of Zeus Technology|publisher=Riverbed Technology|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208012543/http://www.riverbed.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2011/press_071911b.php|archive-date=2011-12-08|access-date=2013-09-08}}</ref> who ended support for Zeus on November 30, 2014.<ref name="riverbed-zws-end-of-support">{{Cite web|url=https://support.riverbed.com/content/support/about_support/end_of_life_policy.html|title=Hardware & Software End of Life Policy (search for 'PL-ZWS-4CPU')|publisher=Riverbed Technology|url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925055448/https://support.riverbed.com/content/support/eos_eoa/stingray_products.html#WebServerandGlobalLoadBalancer |archive-date=2015-09-25|access-date=2021-12-18}}</ref>