Server Tools are available in abundance on the "Net". You can find practically anything you need to run a web server, mail server, add to an existing server or anything else your imagination can come up with. Scripts, programs, and more are listed on this page.

• Xitami - My favorite! From Imatix corporation. Fast, free, easy to use, killer web server. Incorporates virtual hosting capabilities, server side includes and FTP. Operating Systems: Win95/98/NT, Linux, Unix, OS2. To see it in action visit i-MSE.com.
• Apache - The king of web servers. More than 50% of all web sites run on Apache. Free, fast, stable (at least for Unix/Linux) and very configurable. Available for Linux, Unix, Win95/98/NT.
• O'Reilly WebSite - The original web server for Win32 (Win95/98/NT) systems. A very good, but expensive web server. If you are running NT, this is a vast improvement over IIS3 or IIS4.

• ArgoSoft Mail Server - Small, easy to use and free.
• MDaemon Server - This is an excellent mail server. Incredibly configurable, with auto-responders, web based email options and more. Not cheap, but worth the price.
• Merak Email Server - A bit more complex than Mdaemon, but a good choice for performance, especially if you are running on NT.

For some of the very best and most useful scripts, start your quest at Matt's Script Archive. This is one of the oldest and best collections of truly useful scripts on the Internet. More than 20 scripts to choose from. The Formmail and Textcounter scripts are 2 of the best. I use them on 3 of my sites and have never had any problems with them.
Visit Matt's Script Archive

Looking for a place to find thousands of great scripts all on one site? From the same folks who brought you Matt's Script Archive comes the CGI-Resource Index. This site lists more than 2672 CGI related resources in 270 categories. This is the place I go when I need to find a script for one of my sites. The index is searchable, has reviews/ratings of scripts and is one of the most useful resources on the net for webmasters.
CGI-Resource Index

It might be the strangest name in Webmaster Resources, but BigNoseBird.Com is one of the best sites for free scripts, tutorials and graphics. Their Virtual Card script is the basis for my cybergreet.net postcard hosting. Of course I modified the heck out of it, but underneath it is still the BigNoseBird virtual card script. Their "Recommend this Site" script is super easy and fast to set up.
BigNoseBird Webmaster Resources

My Favorites!

• DiscusWare - Free message board script. Outstanding!!! I use it on my Cybergreet.net Support site!
• Webadverts - It rotates ads and can be run as a banner exchange. Need I say more...ok...Killer Script!!!
• Fluid Dynamics Search Engine - Create your very own searchable database. Super script, easy setup! Runs on NT too!

If you want to run scripts, then you are going to need to have PERL [practical extraction and reporting language] on your system. The perl that ships with most Win32 based web servers is woefully inadequate. To get a full version of perl for free, with an easy to use installation use the perl build from Activestate. It is free, easily setup and runs darn near every cgi script out there, (even some that they say they only run on Unix!). I run Xitami server, so I recommend the older 522 build.
Get Perl at Activestate

If you are like me, you are probably hopelessly addicted to counters. Why I have this fascination, I'll never know, but they are cool anyway. A fantastic little program for Win32(95/98/NT) servers can be found at Ryan Sammartino's website. It is a small executable, runs very fast, customizable and is free.
You can download the counter here