vbgunz
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 :)
vbgunz
Anyone know what my vote is? 🙂
Anonymous
It is my primary server - I've gone through a few others (Apache, Xitami, etc)
GOT PHP?
http://16.sytes.net/php-clone
vbgunz
I didn't know a thing about serving webpages, servers, etc a few weeks ago but looked into it after looking at DynDNS... Anyway I didn't have a clue what to do with DynDNS and when I asked, someone referred Abyss... It was my first crack at serving and I thought I take a look at a few others... Abyss won my heart hands down in comparison...
Its really good, I really like it 🙂
kip2001
I first tried using apache, but it was a pain and I couldn't get it running so someone told me about abyss, and now my site is up and running with PHP, Perl, ASP, and mysql 🙂
vbgunz
I tried Apache, Xitami and a few others but like I said I did a full circle and enjoy very much the fact that I did... The instructions for setting up Abyss to use active languages such as PHP, PERL, ASP was a breeze not to mention MySQL... I rank Abyss to be the easiest to use and eagerly look forward to the next version 🙂
Be good, have fun and good luck 🙂
thedane
well, at the office i work with apache on FreeBSD OS .. and i wanted to develop some stuff at home aswell, so I installed FreeBSD along with Apache aswell .. but I kinda missed some of the neat Windows features, so now I got a multi OS system .. Windows XP with Abyss and FreeBSD with Apache.
I'm using the Windows partition more often, but FreeBSD is the primary 🙂
Installing the latest Apache onto Windows XP gave me some problems, so I'm happy to have found an alternative here 8)
vbgunz
You know so far the votes are telling... Abyss seems to be sticky... Though it might not be the first choice it seems to certainly hold onto you once you try it...
Thank you all for your votes and participation 🙂
tv2Rob
I got tired of the web hosting scene as a whole...(no pun intended)
Their slow response time, their rudeness etc..
when I got my first broadband connection (640k upstream)
I thought...why not! I was a little concerned at first
since I use .pl scripts quite a bit, that I might have to
reconfigure my web site entirely...(or install Linux on my machine.) fortunately most of my scripts ran fine on Abyss, some needed a little bit of tinkering but nonetheless, since then
it's been a great learning experience and I have no regrets at all.
and I certainly have no intention on ever going back to web hosting companies... Free at last! :wink:
enko
Tried my web server but didnt like the interface
rtp3
The very first internet I had was a cable connection...had it ever since...so of course I try to host a website on it...doesn't work. I go to webhosters (free of course); geoshitties, others, angelfire, tripod, simplehost, etc. they turn to crap (except for simplehost)...so I search for webservers...
I've tried Apache, Xitami, and others, but none seemed to work...
So I'm searching download.com for personal web servers and I come across Abyss...I install it, and it actually works! First try! Incredibly easy to configure, and I don't even have to give out my ip with a sitelutions.com subdomain... (although as of late my console gives me a 500 error when i open the console 🙁 :? ) btw, I downloaded a file from myself (sound funny?) and it ran at over 600k (a bit slow, but of course there's the factors of CPU, memory, downloading fromserver-toserver is dumb, tradeoff of bandwidth)...downloaded the same file from an internet cafe and it downloaded at over 800k...impressive by my standards...
Abyss works perfectly (except for that damn 500 error with the console I get now) on Windows XP with a FAT32 disk...
Now if only I could get Perl/CGI to work properly...
vbgunz
You can find a guide to how to install php/perl/asp at this link
http://www.aprelium.com/abyssws/index.html... I do agree, Abyss is the easiest on the market so far and is indeed very simple. Good luck 🙂
smok3
actualy the very 1st web server i installed was a small (~1k) arexx script running on amiga with miami tcp stack and it did work just fine, i think there was even a way to use cgi of some sort. (similar solutions still exist, check
http://carls.1av10.nu/w3s/ if you are interested, it is open-source and also a bit more complex i guess - around 20k, lmao.)
s1asher
It is my primary server - I've gone through a few others (Apache, Xitami, etc)
Abyss is the best so far in my opinion though, so thats why this one has stayed 🙂
pagekeeper
This is my 2nd day and im getting grips with it really fast the easyness of Abyss. I installed Apache and found it was soo hard to configure so i'm going to stick with Abyss till i get used to hosting and learn before i use harder programs like apache!
😃
yalrighty
I used Apache and loved it but Abyss is lightweight and just as fast if not faster. To be honest though, it was a tough decision between Abyss and Xitami because Xitami is also lightweight and has built-in FTP (but I use BulletProof FTP so it don't matter). However, I am confident that the next major release of Abyss will also offer built-in FTP and maybe SMTP too! 8)
jmstacey2000
:roll: or perhaps just have them optional as modules..
-Jon-
yalrighty
I would assume that you would be able to turn these functions on and off lol. 8)
WeaponsX
Why in the heck is the topic a sticky?
crazymazey
I,ve been using abyss for about 3 weeks and its my primary server as i have not installed or tried any others i have looked at apache as i would like to host others sites.
and also i would like to have some way of allowing users to create email addresses e.g
user@mydomain.org
i know this is not a request forum
but i would like to say is there a new version of abyss web server coming soon with a better control panel.
and more features
frontpage extentions are not working ?