New, Agile Server Made for ISPs

Secant Technologies claims its Extreme Internet Server supports virtual and dedicated hosting, and allows ISPs to offer new services.

by Wayne Kawamoto [March 6, 2000]

Secant Technologies, Inc. announced its Extreme Internet Server, an application hosting environment for ISPs. According to the company, the system offers a strong platform that supports the widest range of Web applications. Besides supporting the Java Servlet 2.1 API and JavaServer Pages 1.0 technology with load balancing and failover capabilities, Extreme Internet Server also supports clustering, and distribution of traditional CGI applications including Perl and PHP.

Designed for the ISP environment, the Extreme Internet Server supports both virtual and dedicated hosting with software load balancing. The company claims that ISPs that use the Extreme Internet Server can increase their revenue and attract new customers by offering flexible deployment options as customers' demands for dynamic content increases. The Extreme Internet Server is supposed to offload resource-intensive CGI script processing onto specialized application servers, which allows a Web server to be tuned for maximum static-content throughput, and improves overall site performance.

Secant claims its Secant Extreme Enterprise Server for Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB) provides Java developers with the industry’s best Java 2 Enterprise Edition platform support, including full support for Enterprise JavaBeans and Java Server Pages, and that its Secant Extreme Enterprise Server for C++ provides C++ developers with a complete, CORBA-compliant application server for developing today’s most scalable and reliable e-Business applications. It says that based on Secant’s unique design, developers can create a mix of fully interoperable EJB and C++ applications servers, or can rapidly transition an existing Secant application server from C++ to EJB, or vice versa.

"Extreme Internet Server raises the bar for flexible, secure application hosting," says Randy Johnson, Product Manager at Secant. "Secant lets ISP's host a wider range of dynamic content technologies with confidence."

Pricing and Availability

Secant Extreme Internet Server will start at $1,295 per server, and initially be available on the most popular Internet platforms, including Linux, BSDI, Windows NT 4.0 and 2000, and the Solaris operating environment.

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