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How Web Servers and the Internet Work?
Web Server Performance Comparision
OS (Operating System)
The OS Files
Information and background about every x86 Operating System
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Software Vendors
Mac OS
Microsoft Windows
Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
OS/2 Warp
Server & Client, Client Supports OS/2, DOS, Java and most Windows 3.X applications
Red Hat Linux
Desktop, Workstation and Server
RISC OS
for RiscPC
UNIX
Networking Workstation and Server
DIY:
Multiple OS Booting Using Windows NT Loader
Software
HyperOS
Multi Windows System uses boot environment redirection - run up to 21 windows system on one hard drive
Microsoft Virtual PC
for PC and Mac
System Commander
Boot & run virtually all x86 Operating System: Win 3x/95/98,SE/ME/NT/2k/XP Unix / Linux OSs - DOSs & other OSs (CP/M, OS/2 etc.)
VMware Workstation
Virtual machine enabling multiple operating systems to run on a physical computer
ServerWatch
News, Trends, Tutorials, Stats, Hardware, Software, Reviews ....
FreeBSD
FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible (including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible (including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC®, IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures.
Mac OS X Server
Apache Web Server included
Microsoft Windows NT Servers with IIS 4
Microsoft Windows 2000 Servers with IIS 5
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with IIS
6
Novell NetWare 
NetWare 5.1 includes IBM WebSphere Application Server 3.5 Standard Edition and NetWare Enterprise Web Server.
Red Hat Professional Server
SCO OpenLinux Server
Includes Apache Web Server
Sun Solaris Operating Environment
For SPARC (32- and 64-bit) or Intel Architecture (32-bit) platforms. For SPARC - software Media Kit Include iPlanet Web Server and iPlanet Directory Server.
UNIX
Support Internet and intranet services
IBM Informix Data Servers
Microsoft SQL Server
Free
Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE)
for most Microsoft OS/Server except Vista
Free
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for Vista
MySQL
A client/server system that consists of a multi-threaded SQL server that supports different backends, several different client programs and libraries, administrative tools, and several programming interfaces.
Free MySQL Community Server and MySQL Enterprise Subscription.
Oracle
Oracle Application Server and Oracle Database
Sysbase
Database Servers
Fax Server
Esker VSI-FAX

Fax server for Unix/Linux
AceFTP2 Client for Windows
BulletProof FTP for Windows
CuteFTP for Windows
CuteFTP Pro for secure data delivery
Fetch 
FTP client for the Apple Macintosh
FTP clients directory - Google
FTP Clients Rating - CWSApps
FTP Explorer for Windows
FTP Voyager for Windows
IglooFTP
Graphical FTP Client for Linux
JFTP the FTP Client for Java
Free for personal use. A cross-platform graphical FTP runs on any platform that supports Java 1.1, and has been tested on Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0, Linux, MacOS and Sparc and Intel Solaris platforms, connecting to NT and UNIX based FTP servers.
NFTP
FTP client for - AIX RS/6000 / BeOS Intel / Digital Unix Alpha / FreeBSD Intel / Linux Intel, SPARC / OS/2 Intel / Solaris SPARC, Intel / Windows 95/98/NT/2000
SmartFTP
for Windows. Free
Terrapin File server
Transmit FTP for Mac 
Vicomsoft FTP Client for Mac
WS_FTP
Home
The FTP Protocol Resource Center
FTPfx Server
A powerful, feature rich FTP server that will meet the needs of even the most demanding file sharing situations
Linux-ftpd-0.10
Free FTP Server for Linux
ProFTPD
FTP server for Linux/Unix systems
Rumpus
FTP Server for Mac OS
WS_FTP Server
602 Pro Lan Suite
Internet Sharing, E-mail and Fax All-in-one application for Windows network
Avirt Mail for Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000
The complete internal and external email solution, Avirt Mail automatically retrieves email from multiple POP3 accounts and sorts it to local mailboxes
EIMS Eudora Internet Mail Server
for the Macintosh platform
Emurl
Seattle Lab Emurl is an email host for Windows servers
Eudora WorldMail Server
for Windows
FTGate
Mail Server for Windows servers
GFi Security & Messaging Software 
Gordano
NTMail for Windows. GLMail Unix, works on Solaris, Red Hat and Mandrake-Linux 8.0 GLWebMail for Windows and Unix platforms
IMail Server
Commercial Grade Mail Server
inFusion Mail Server
Commercial Grade Mail Server
MailMax for Windows servers
MailMaxSQL/2000 Enterprise Edition. Commercial Grade Mail Server
MailScan for Mdaemon
To provide network wide anti-virus protection for the MDaemon server, and is the first software in the world with the ability to automatically upgrade and reconfigure itself with anti-virus information.
Mdaemon
A full-featured Email Server software by Deerfield.com.
Microsoft Exchange Server
120 days free trial. Commercial Grade Mail Server.
NMS Netscape Messaging Server™
Commercial Grade Mail Server. All platforms
Post.Office
Scalable E-Mail and list server for Mac OS X
PostCast SMTP Server
Free - It turns your computer into outgoing mail server, which can send more than 3500 messages per hour with an ordinary modem connection !
Qpopper
POP3 server for Unix/Linux message transfer agent, SMTP not supported
Rockliffe
MailSite - Commercial Grade Mail Server. MochaMail - premium web-based e-mail solution for standards-based Windows, Linux, and UNIX mail servers
Stalker CommuniGate Pro Messaging Server
Licensing available to Professional, cooperate, Enterprise, ISP & Large ISP
Sun Internet Mail Server™
Commercial Grade Mail Server. Solaris 7 and Solaris 2.6 operating environment on SPARC or Intel Pentium platforms
WorldClient Pro
Provides professional Email everywhere-at home, at work, or on the road-and it keeps messages secure by storing them on your server.
General
Setting up a filtering and proxy firewall on a Linux based system
What is a proxy server?
Software
Internet Gateway
For Windows and Mac
iPlanet™ Web Proxy Server
upport most platforms
Microsoft Proxy Server
A full-featured enterprise firewall and a high performance Web cache server.
Netscape Proxy Server
Support most platforms
Squid Web Proxy Cache
Free - An open-source software designed to run on Unix systems
WinGate
Poxy Server with built-in Firewall
AnalogX SimpleServer:WWW
A simple to use yet powerful servers
AOLserver
Free - An Open-Source web server formerly known as GNNServer/NaviServer
Apache Web Server
A freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server, the most widely used Web server software in the world
BadBlue Web Servers
Personal Edition (PE): Free A personal Web Server for non-Windows/NT. Enterprise Edition (EE) for Business Application
Boa http server
Free - A server software distributed under the GNU General Public License
CERN httpd (W3C httpd)
Free - A generic public domain full-featured hypertext server which can be used as a regular HTTP server. It can also serve as a proxy - a server on a firewall machine.
FirstClass Intranet Server
An integrated, all-in-one communication, collaboration and Internet/Intranet publishing server solution
GoAhead WebServer
Free - Support ASP, Embedded JavaScript, and in-memory CGI processing.
iPlanet Enterprise Edition
Commercial Grade Web Server
iPlanet FastTrack Edition
Free - A Web server with built-in support for Java, SSL, and LDAP
Jigsaw
Free - W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation and a variety of other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java.
Lotus Domino R5
Commercial Grade server
Mathopd
A very small, very fast HTTP server for UNIX systems
Microsoft Commerce Server
Commercial Grade Web Server for eCommerce site development & management, trial download available
Microsoft IIS Internet Information Service see Microsoft Network Servers
Microsoft Windows XP Professional with IIS
5.1
Microsoft PWS (Personal Web Server)
Based on IIS v4 is shipped with Windows 98/SE & NT. Windows 95 can download the Windows NT4 option pack
Microsoft Site Server
A server for cooperate Intranet
Netscape Enterprise
Netscape Enterprise Server is high-performance, highly scalable Commercial Grade Web Server software
Netscape FastTrack
The FastTrack is an entry-level web server
OmniHTTPd
A Web Server for Windows 98/NT. Free and purchase version
Pacific Software Publishing
Web Server Applications & Development Tools for Windows NT/2000 IIS Server:
POP3 server, E-mail broadcasting system, Shopping Cart system.
Red Hat Stronghold Enterprise Secure Web Server
Commercial Grade SSL Secure 128-bit encryption Web Server based on the popular Apache web server.
Roxen WebServer 
Available for free download
Samber WWW Server
Savant Web Server
Free - An open source web server that runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, and 2000, turning any desktop computer into a powerful web server.
Servertec Internet Server
A small, fast, scalable and easy to administer platform independent. Application/Web Server written entirely in Java. Try for 90 Days for Free.
Tcl Web Server
Free - A pure-Tcl implementation of an HTTP protocol server. It runs as a script on top of a vanilla Tcl interpreter
thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server
Free - A simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server used by many ISPs
VqServer
Free - Enables hosting of web sites on any personal computer (Windows, Macintosh, Linux or Solaris) which supports Java applications A complete set of powerful and easy-to-use Internet servers for the Mac OS
WebSTAR Server Suite
Commercial Grade
Zeus Web Server
Hosting / Commercial Grade high-performance web server software
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