Hello all! At Birmingham, we took the decision about 15 months ago to set up our own server solution, Apple-based (MacHTTP). We now have a dedicated 6150 Server (lots of hard disk, memory, RAID etc.) and use the famous WebStar (commercial version). This was essentially Apple's Internet in a box solution and works pretty well out of the box. As far as management software goes, we use NetForms and NetCloak as well as cgis and some Apple script stuff. There are two shareware utilities (cron and WebStat) for statistics. Although this is an easy solution to maintain, there are drawbacks (Apple script is slooooooow) and we may move to a Silicon Graphics platform in the future (depends on the cash situation). We can also run a dedicated email service and general archiving facility on this machine. Anyone thinking of setting up a departmental server can do alot worse than this route in my opinion. Alan ps I am a full-time staff and part-time webmaster! Different thread, but perhaps relevant. pps Apologies to anyone visiting bham - we are currently undergoing a major re-vamp. Should be on-line in our new form after the Xmas break...... (famous last words) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)