Installation: Very simple install with helpful defaults. Follows standard NCSA style installation. Very flexible/configurable as well. Reliability: I've run it on servers that get millions of hits a week without problems, ever. Tech support: In addition to solid, straightforward documentation and quality commercial support being available, Apache is available as source which makes solving problems much much easier. Additionally newsgroup support is faster and more reliable than any of the big commercial server vendors in my experience. Overall: Apache is free, quality, flexible and extensible. Overall an outstanding server. As someone who has written numerous special function servers, Apache's API and included modules make for a high performance fast and extensible server superior to _any_ other server I have seen.