Also missing is support for database access and intranet applications such as discussion forums and chat rooms. Instead, Tenon points Webmasters to public-domain solutions that can be integrated into WebTen. WebTen offers better functionality and extensibility than WebStar and stacks up pretty well against its Unix cousin Apache. In addition, you can expand WebTen using specially ported modules, the Apache standard for in-process CGIs. Webmasters can use any of these interfaces to add database access and other functionality.
Development is tougher.
While Tenon sells a development environment for creating CGIs, you get no bundled utilities for creating or testing non-Apple scripts and CGIs. For static HTML page serving, WebTen turned out the best numbers we've ever seen for a Mac Web server. Its performance was in the middle of the pack, but it was better than Apache under Linux and Solaris and dramatically better than WebStar. The server started slowly, because it served from disk until the cache was loaded, but once that happened, the program performed well. WebTen could not handle the load of our CGI mix and failed to complete the tests.