In order to help speed up things for those who don t have the fastest of connection speeds, Planet-Share implements a caching system that functions like the one in your Web browser, only on a larger scale. You tell it how much space you want it to use and it stores local copies of popular Web sites directly on your network. When people try and access those sites they receive a local copy which is much faster than going online and downloading the whole thing from scratch. To ensure it s always serving up the latest version of a page, Planet-Share can automatically check the cached pages against the originals and if any change is detected, then grab the new pages. Planet-Share also has a built in Web accelerator to compliment its caching.
Web accelerator uses a history-based strategy.
It looks at the sites you visit the most and will then pre-fetch those pages when your connection is idle. The advantage of this is that it won t choke off your entire network s bandwidth by constantly grabbing every single page in sight. Planet-Share's mail feature can be set up in several different ways to correspond to what exactly you need it to do. Planet-Share occasionally dials out to send all the mail and retrieve new mail. Planet-Share can even be used to setup a local, internal mail system.