Complete Apache binary.
Covalent Enterprise Ready Server is supplied with two fully configured and ready-to-run Apache Web servers (v1.3/2.0/2.2) that are compatible with the standard open-source Apache, and therefore interoperable with more than 200 operating systems and most major Web applications and application servers. Covalent does not modify the Apache binary code, thus ensuring that Enterprise Ready Server will always interoperate with Apache-certified technologies.

Streamlined installation of Apache and modules.
Covalent Enterprise Ready Server enables automated installation of popular languages to use with Apache for dynamic content and server management, including Java, Perl, and PHP. Support for Java Server Pages and Java servlets is available via Apache Tomcat. A sys admin can either work tirelessly for days building the backend server framework on his own, or, with ERS, can get the entire infrastructure up and running in minutes. When installing Apache Tomcat, Covalent Enterprise Ready Server provides quick installation and seamless integration with existing Apache/Tomcat infrastructures.

Java Server functionality.
Covalent Enterprise Ready Server includes the J2SE environment, which contains several of the APIs suitable for enterprise use (RMI-IIOP, Java IDL, JDBC, JNDI). Also supplied is the Apache Tomcat Server to enable Java server capabilities with both Java servlets and JSP (Java Server Pages). Tomcat is the reference implementation for the Servlet 2.2 2.3, 2.4 and JSP 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 specifications and is ideal for standalone servlet applications and JSP applications. MD5-based connection authentication is employed, and servlets may be separated into different logical containers to ease administration.

Integrate into existing Apache installations without aggravation.
Covalent Enterprise Ready Server provides seamless integration with existing Apache infrastructures through its support of Dynamic Shared Objects (DSO). Multiple server instances (secure, non secure, with or without extensions such as Perl, PHP and FTP) can be run with a single Apache installation. The server package can also be easily extended with third-party modules, even after installation. Several popular Apache modules are also included.

Includes mod_ssl based on OpenSSL.
Mod_ssl provides 128-bit encryption, and is compatible with both SSL and TLS (Transport Layer Security, the third incarnation of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol), in order to support a wider variety of secure connections. It supports the use of Global Server IDs (GSID), which upgrade standard 40-bit browsers to use full 128-bit security.

Simplified certificate management.
Mod_ssl supports almost all CAs, including VeriSign, Thawte, Entrust and Equifax. While digital certificates can be issued by any Certificate Authority (CA), most Web browsers contain a list of trusted CAs, including those Covalent supports. The Covalent Certificate and Key Management Tool simplifies generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) as well as self-signed certificates. Supports per-virtual-host certificates.

Hardware acceleration support.
Mod_ssl supports the Rainbow CryptoSwift and nCipher nFast acceleration cards. Relegating CPU-intensive PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) cryptography operations to hardware optimized for these operations can improve a server's response time up to 1000%, increase e-commerce servers' throughput, lower customers' wait times, and increase the number of customers a server can simultaneously manage. Hardware acceleration also provides superior price/performance ratios, offering more performance for much less than the cost of buying additional servers.

Includes popular Apache modules (selectable at installation)

mod_dav
Implements the standard WebDAV protocol, allowing distributed Web authoring tools to interact with the Apache Web server. Supported on Apache 1.3 and 2.0.

mod_perl
Improves the performance of Perl CGI's allowing perl programmers to enhance the Apache Web server by making it possible for Apache to understand modules written in Perl.

mod_PHP
A server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language which enables you to create dynamic content.

JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java servlets support
The inclusion of the Apache Tomcat Applications Server enables Java server capabilities.

Connect with major databases.
Covalent Enterprise Ready Server includes ODBC, JDBC, PostgreSQL, and MySQL connectivity.

Simplify your infrastructure
By exploiting the multi-protocol support of Apache 2.0, Covalent FTP leverages all other Covalent ERS filters, modules and services to eliminate the need for parallel systems.

Authentication, authorization, and logging modules, for example, can be shared across both FTP and HTTP to reduce management headaches, costs, time and resources.

Secure your FTP transmissions with SSL
ERS FTP shares the scalability and reliability of the underlying Apache architecture. With support for both multi-threaded and multi-processing models, ERS FTP enables you to scale FTP. ERS FTP supports RFC 2228 for FTP transmissions over SSL, providing an industry standard method of securely transmitting information using FTP. Both implicit and explicit SSL connections are supported for the widest compatibility with commercial FTP client software. The ERS FTP module also supports the draft specification for SSL/TLS support. Covalent's customers are already using ERS FTP for critical business processes, such as the movement of financial records and software updates.