Please Vote: Community Intelligence

vbgunz · 2003-02-03T08:17:26+00:00

Overall I would like to know where the majority of this community stands when it boils down to working with a web server. Your identity will not be revealed and it'll only take a few seconds to vote. Please Participate :)

thespikus

saw info and review on cnet.com....never done it before so i figured it was time to learn, just started last night.....have no clue as to what i am doing so far, so we will see as i learn...
thanks. there seems to be a lot of info and people here to learn from.

funkytoad

That was a good question.
I'm glad someone asked that!

mulawa1

I don't need a "real" web server as my web site is remotely hosted but I do need one to reliably test my perl & MySql code on my local machine before uploading it.
For years Xitami has worked well for me but now that the family has grown to include a Vista box I had to find an alternative. I did an exhaustive search but all I could find was Apache and having used it when I was gainfully employed I wasn't prepared to go down that esoteric path again - don't get me wrong! - used properly it's a wonderful piece of software but for my needs it's a slegehammer to crack a nut.
Just recently I repeated the whole process - trying to get Xitami to work with Vista and in my searching discovered Abyss - I just can't believe how good it is and how easy it was to set up.
I'm also mightily impressed by the strength of this user community.
Peter

anybody

iNaNimAtE wrote
and in response to you, crazy, if you want people to be able to have you@yourdomain.com you will need to do the following:
1. (obviously) get a domain name - use 000domains.com: 13.50 per year with web forwarding and anything else you need.
2. get some dns servers - i will recommend "zone edit (www.zoneedit.com)" until the day i die. they forward up to 5 domains to ips for free. the best part is, it acts like a real dns, so you can use the domain like your own.
3. get an email server. i am still testing it, but you can try "602 lan suite" at www.602software.com (i think)
4. then configure the email server to do webmail

OUCH!
zoneedit.com, lol, that is truly funny. All you get for free is the first five domains and then your cut off and have to pay.
MyDomain.com is 9.95 a year for a domain name. You register a domain with them you get:
FREE URL Forwarding (can be disabled)
FREE eMail Forwarding (can be disabled)
FREE DNS Management - no joke, you get FREE DNS Management for every domain you register through or transfer to them.
FREE Domain Locking / Transfer Lock
FREE SPAM Shield / WHOIS Privacy
You get all of that... FOR FREE
All you pay for is $9.95 a year for the domain it's self.
Also, I've heard no-ip.com mentioned on these forums and I hate to break it to you sadly 'cause you have to pay for every domain you add to no-ip.com's system. The only thing you get for free from them is their subdomains. DNSExit.com provides FREE DNS Management with an IP Updater utility for EVERY DOMAIN you map to their system by pointing your domain to their Name Servers with MyDomain.com's FREE DNS Management.

anybody

I used apache for 10+ years until I found abyss. What is funny about this is I had stored up like 100+ mb in hard drive space for 3rd party GUIs and mods, like mod_security, mod_ssl, etc.
I played with abyss x1 allotfor about a month on my server here at home to see how well it handled with different domains and several different website packages like phpbb, vbulletin with vbadvanced, e107, drupel, joomla, MODx, CubeCart, Zen Cart, osCommerce, etc. Took me some time to get use to abyss but it hooked me and I paid the yearly subscription for it. I've been using it ever since.
Something else I found very useful is TRUSTabyss.com's Mod Rewrite Translator for translating htaccess files for Abyss: URL Rewriting.

jeffjohn

Abyss used as primary web server after grappling with Apache.

jeffjohn

It is my primary server - Abyss is my first attempt at serving
I did look at apache but life's too short!
I think Abyss is inspirational - brilliant.
p.s. why is there not a dynamic voting form on this question??

Immemiaplaype

Hi everyone,
Good day to you.
I had made some changes on my web site and tested it on my local computer,its display seems perfectly
However,when I view it in other computer which is in a network with 10 computers,my web site display fall apart Thats an overlapping of products image sit on its text description,other text fall below the fold and you need to scroll down in order to view it It is totally difference from what I view it in my computer
My computer and that particular network are running on windows xp.
May I know whats wrong with my site ? Is there any way to check and test my site on my local computer to spot any errors on it ? How to be sure its working fine on other web browser ?
I really dont know what went wrong and need your advice on this issue in order for me to slove this doubt and put my site up and running.
Many thanks for your time and effort in helping me.
Thank you.
Best regards
Manicui

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