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Sharing a single Internet connection among several computers makes a lot of sense these days, especially with the growing availability of high-speed connections through cable modems and DSL lines. Most software solutions to Internet connection sharing fall into two categories: proxy servers and Network Address Translation (NAT). Each type of solution has its own set […]

Wingate Internet proxy server was the first such product available, and its current release (4.3) maintains Deerfield.com’s leadership in this field. WinGate comes in three versions, Home, Standard, and Professional, allowing networked computers to share a single Internet connection, and save enterprises money on expenses for multiple modems, Internet accounts, and phone lines. On WinGate […]

WinProxy 3.0 from Ositis is a practical system for connecting a network of PCs to the Internet. Suitable for the SOHO user, this system supports all connection types, including dial-up, broadband, and wireless. The server is installed on one computer on the network, and provides all of the others with transparent Web access. New features […]

Geared more for the small office and home office relying on dedicated dial-up lines to the Internet, WinProxy 2.1 and WinProxy Lite are great examples of why people shouldn’t rely on the behemoths — in this case, Microsoft and Netscape Communications — to provide all software to all people. For many smaller sites, the power […]

For a shareware product, Fictional Daemon is a very impressive Telnet server. Although a Windows-only product, its configuration options are similar to Unix-based Telnet servers, and it offers a wide array of options to customize the permissions, such as the user being able to change his or her own password, and the capability to change […]

Telnet has been around longer than the World Wide Web and the Internet, yet it’s usually ignored in wider discussions of low-impact connectivity. That’s too bad, since telnet is a great way of connecting PCs and servers in low-bandwidth situations, allowing for remote administration from any Internet connection using a telnet client. InterAccess TelnetD Server […]

WAISS (pronounced WAIS-S) is one of a trio of freeware servers released by the European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Center (EMWAC). The server is actually a port of the freeWAIS server (v0.202) and as such is a fairly basic implementation that does little more than serve its purpose (no pun intended), which is allowing Windows […]

As one of a handful of Web servers seriously competing for the heavy-duty end of the market, it’s good news that Netscape Enterprise Web Server has made the transition to iPlanet Web Server Enterprise Edition improved and ready to do battle. iPlanet Web server remains essentially the high performance product of Netscape but with a […]

Is iServer a Web server or an application server? At the moment, it’s a Web server with some application-server capabilities, but if Servertec follows through with its ambitious object-oriented development plans, in the future iServer will be added to our application-server listings as well. iServer, written entirely in Java for any Java-enabled (i.e. supporting the […]

Jigsaw is not the sort of Web server that you’d base an enterprise-level Internet presence around. But if you’re at all serious about staying ahead of the curve when it comes to the cutting edge of Web protocols and infrastructures, you’ll want to have a test machine running Jigsaw somewhere. Jigsaw 2.0, as developed by […]

Microsoft’s Personal Web Server (PWS) is a scaled-down version of the commercial Information Internet Server (IIS) included with the Server edition of Microsoft Windows NT. Designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation users, PWS is a great entry-level Web server that makes it easy to publish personal home pages, serve small Web sites, and […]

Netscape’s entry-level Web Server provides a wide variety of advanced features at a reasonable price. Unfortunately it doesn’t position well against competing offerings and as a result will be of interest only to a limited audience. FastTrack provides advanced features not normally found in an entry-level product including LDAP support (which theoretically simplifies user management), […]