 - 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.
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