Looking for free web, ftp, and mail servers.

[LordSandMan]

Anyone have any links???? IIS is starting to piss me off.

 

[fogleroller]

LINUX

 

[GT1999]

Word to that!

 

[Ausm]

Try the Sambar server it rocks...

Ausm

 

[flyers1]

Definately Linux. Most Linux distros come with all three of those servers included. Plus, they're free!!

 

[BOFH]

Apache does work on win32 also FWIW

 

[goldboyd]

assuming you go for a *nix, you can't beat apache and qmail.

 

[LordSandMan]

Ok thanks for the info. I don't quite have a Linux box set up yet. Just waiting till I can afford the motherboard. I've got all the other parts, just need the motherboard. Anybody know of anything that runs on 2k server??? Sorry I didn't specify earlier.


Sambar??? is that linux or 2k???

 

[kohutek]

Sambar is a really fast, multi-threaded, *free* windows based web server. It supports SSI & CGI ... I used it at college quite extensively.

It is small, fast, and free, and pretty easy to set up. I think there is a linux distro of it.

randal

 

[BOFH]

Apache is free on all platforms also. My mother runs it for testing stuff ontop of win98 inside vmware

 

[LordSandMan]

I just DLed Sambar, looks pretty good. It looked like it included webbased email too, but I'm not seeing any options for it. Can anyone that has used it verify exactly what servers are included with the free version. I found the web and FTP stuff. I also noticed it had a proxy server, which might be nice, but it wasn't a caching proxy server. Can anyone explain the difference between a caching and non caching proxy server is. What is the purpose of a non-caching proxy??? Thanks for all the replies.

 

[ajskydiver]

Checkout Squid for proxy software...very powerful...might be just what you're looking for.

Squid-cache.org

 

[LordSandMan]

Squid Cache looks cool, but will it run on w2k??? If not it may be an option for the future, when I get Linux working. It's opensource, can it be compiled to run on w2k?? If so how difficult is it?? I'm not a programmer.:frown:

 

[BruinEd03]

Apache is a good web server here's the URL (to edit the specs of the server all u have to do is edit a .txt file!):

Apache


-Ed