Highlights Web Servers R olling your own Web site is becoming a more realistic alternative every day. Webmasters can now concentrate on content instead of worrying about the minutiae of Web site configuration and maintenance. Turnkey Web-server solutions take most of the guesswork out of gearing up to launch a Web site. There's a rush to Windows NT-based Internet software going on right now. Programming and scripting languages for creating CGI applications are coming into their own, especially on the NT platform.
Security is the big stumbling block for many of today's newer Web server products.
Preventing unauthorized access to your organization's computer networks is clearly a big issue for most companies, and few of the products we looked at address it adequately out of the box. Our Editors' Choice in this rapidly changing software category is Netscape Commerce Server 1.1, but the recommendation is a qualified one. WebSite is an exemplary CGI development tool, with crystal-clear documentation and enough sample CGI scripts to get you quickly up to speed on scripting your own applications. Also intriguing are The Internet Factory's offerings. Both Commerce Builder and Communications Builder offer chat databases, a rarity in the Web-server world.