Amazingly this USB flash drive holds a whole portable server system. It actually has a HTTP and FTP web server with a email server program which provides POP3 and SMTP mail services. Just plug it into a laptop or a PC and you have a intranet ready to launch. WebServUSB promises the “majority of features of a web server costing thousands of pounds embedded in the USB flash memory”. It comes pre-loaded with PHP, CGI, Pyton, MySQL, Java and lots of other ‘goodies’.
I’m a bit sceptical about how well it works, but for just £50 it is a lot cheaper than other servers and it is already set up. For me, I’ll stick with my Mac OS X with Apache (came pre-installed) and MySQL and PHP (I added those two). It works like a charm and I didn’t have to spend a buck!
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