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Looking for some webserver software

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Polishwonder74

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I've been looking around (google-style) for more neat little server programs. So far, just about the coolest ones I've found are:

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/sswww.htm
and
http://www.omnicron.ca/

Does anyone know of any other really cool software to get this done? I was using Windows XP IIS, and I stumbled upon SimpleServer from AnalogX, and thought you fellas might know about something even better.

Thanks for reading!

Edit: Oops, premature posting, wasn't finished 😱
 
The AnalogX Simple Server it the Simplest and Coolest one

It has one short come it is fixes on using port 80. If your ISP port 80 is blocked for incoming you can not use the Simple Server through the Internet.

Windows native IIS server let you change the ports and it is a combo HTTP / FTP server.

Link to: IIs resource Site

Otherwise a simple but very capable free HTTP with flexible port assignment can be found here.

Link to: Abyss Web Server.

Few general considerations here: Simple Serving

:sun:
 
IIS is ok, but I'm having a heck of a time figuring it all out without grabbing a manual from the bookstore. Unfortunately, chances are IIS is quite a bit more secure than the silly little programs I'm messing around with.
 
Generally speaking IIS would be less secure than pretty much anything simply because it suffers from all Microsoft product problems. That being the volume of PC's with MS's software making it the largest and most readily available target. I don't know what your messing around with specifically but IIS is probably not the best solution if security is an issue. On the other hand, IIS is about as easy as it gets as far as configurable Web server software is concerned. Install it, set your home directly and make sure the service is started. That's the basics anyway.
 
Generally speaking IIS would be less secure than pretty much anything simply because it suffers from all Microsoft product problems. That being the volume of PC's with MS's software making it the largest and most readily available target
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Last time I looked, Apache had a significant lead over IIS.

 
No argument with Apache being on more server machines, hell perhaps even more desktops. That wasn't really the inferrence although reading my post I could see how that would be the thought. MS has a target on it's chest period.
 
Oh snap! The Apache 2 Triad that I'm trying out now was bigger than that I think. I'll have to check that when I get outta work.

Edit: oops, didn't read the RAM part. My bad 😱
 
Originally posted by: kamranziadar
abyss web server is free and more capable than Apache
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😕 What does abyss do that apache can't?

And who cares if it's free; can I download the source code? Can I write add on modules? I didn't see anything about that on the website.
 
Originally posted by: Polishwonder74
Ok, I'm messing around with Abyss, we'll see if it's all that & a bag of chips.
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Please post back when you have evaluated it. I would like to hear about it.
 
I once used the Windows version of thttpd, I think it consumed an entire 400kb of disk and about 2mb of memory.

Lots of different webserver options out there.
 
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