Personal Web Server (PWS)
PWS, an abbreviation for Personal Web Server, is Microsoft's version of a Web server program for
individual PC users who want to share Web pages and other files from their hard drive. PWS is a
scaled-down version of Microsoft's more robust Web server, Internet Information Server IIS.
PWS can be used with a full-time Internet connection to serve Web pages for a Web site with limited
traffic. It can also be used for testing a Web site offline or from a "staging" site before putting
it on a main Web site that is exposed to larger traffic.
PWS can be used together with Microsoft's FrontPage, a Web site design product, to upload Web
pages from a remote location or to the local hard drive; to check for dead links; to create
directories; and to set permissions. PWS is frequently used as part of the trend toward peer-to-peer
exchange and publishing.
The equivalent program for the Macintosh is called Personal Web Sharing.
This was last updated in September 2005
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