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Re: Macintosh Internet Server Software

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From: Simon Slavin
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <steve-1802980748220001@mcg-gra.demon.co.uk>,
steve@mcg-gra.demon.co.uk (Steve Babb) wrote:

> My company is buying a 64k leased line to the internet and want to use a
> powermac as our internet server. On this server we wish to host our web
> pages and also an ftp area. Could someone please tell me which software
> will do the job, and also how secure using a mac is for an internet
> server. We have seen a copy of Netpresenz, which is shareware, is this
> upto the job?

Netpresenz is good and will do what you want.  It won't stand up to
the sort of continuing pounding that an internationally-well-known
server will get, but it's excellent for a startup-solution.  If you
find it can't stand up to the load, you can always change later.
There are plenty of commercial solutions advertised all over the net.

Although System 8 has web-server capabilities, they're not very good.

> and is it secure?

There are no security holes in Netpresenz that I know of, providing
that you follow the documentation correctly when configuring it.
Macs on the whole are pretty secure since the holes that most people
have learned to exploit are in the UNIX system.

Simon.
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Subject: Re: Macintosh Internet Server Software
Date: 1998/02/21
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