Managing Internet Information Services: World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, and more
by By Nye, Adrian, Liu, Cricket, Jones, Russ, Peek, Jerry, and Buus, Bryan
Category: Computers , Internet , General

Managing Internet Information Services describes how to create services for the millions of Internet users.  By setting up Internet servers for World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, Finger, Telnet, WAIS (Wide Area Information Services), or email services, anyone with a suitable computer and Internet connection can become an "Internet Publisher."Services on the Internet allow almost instant distribution and frequent updates of any kind of information.  You can provide services to employees of your own company (solving the information distribution problems of spread-out companies), or you can serve the world.  Perhaps  you'd like to create an Internet service equivalent to the telephone  company's directory assistance.  Or maybe you're the Species Survival  Commission, and you'd like your plans online; this book describes a  prototype service the authors created to make SSC's endangered species  Action Plans viewable worldwide.  Whatever you have in mind can be done.   This book tells you how.Creating a service can be a big job, involving more than one person.  This book separates the setup and maintenance of server  software from the data management, so that a team can divide responsibilities.  Sections and chapters on data management, a role we call the Data Librarian, are marked with a special icon.