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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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You could try Spiderislands Telefinder Software, which combines a BBS, Http
server and Mail server with advanced features such as server side HTML and
web conferenceing.  We use the software here for our Intranet, but most of
their customers use it as an Internet server.

Up until 2 weeks ago we were running fine on an LCIII with 24MB RAM, so you
should have no problems on a PPC.

Their address is http://www.spiderisland.com/

regards 
Andy
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In article <steve-1802980748220001@mcg-gra.demon.co.uk>,
steve@mcg-gra.demon.co.uk (Steve Babb) wrote:


>Hello,
>
>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? and is it secure?
>
>Thanks alot
>
>Steve