Purplenova Web Hosting on your PC

Purplenova’s slogan claimed to have ‘redefined web hosting’, this is true to a very small extent in that Purplenova enables you to turn an ordinary desktop PC, or any computer with a broadband connection to the Internet, into a web server that can share applications, host websites, share documents, photos and just about anything that reside on the computer that you may want to share with the world or selected users.

The aforementioned services Purplenova helps you share or make available on the world wide web is not quite new, if you have the know how, you can easily do this yourself with built-in web serving capability that comes with the standard PC running any of the major desktop operating system including Linux and Mac.

What Purplenova does differently from yet to be released Windows Home Server or Windows Personal Web Server which comes bundled with Microsoft Windows computers is that a PC that is Web enabled with Purplenova is able to work as a fully functional Web Hosting server, able to perform complex DNS services needed to host
top level domain name or a sub domain name in the form of say temi.co.uk, whereas Windows Home Server can only host a sub domain of homeserver.com for example a site you host using Windows Home Server will have url that goes something like this: temi.homeserver.com .

Other features of Purplenova that makes it more advanced that Windows Home Serve includes the much more advanced way Purplenova interacts with services such as proxy servers, firewalls, IIS, Apache and other web
applications.
Purplenova is far easier to install than Microsoft Home Server, according to Infinishare Technologies, owners of Purplenov, “it takes only three minutes to install Purplenova and there is not need to reboot your computer”

 Though Purplenova turns you PC to a Web Hosting platform, and can even be used to access specific resources on your computer via your mobile phone while you are on the road.
 Do you really want to turn your PC to a Web Hosting server? This
question was put to some experienced webmasters. The answer was a resounding NO! from all respondents.  Security was the top concern of all the reasons given for now wanting to turn a workstation to a Web Server.
This concerns was put to Milind Pandit, VP Marketing at Purlenova. According to Milind and list of features of Purplenova at their website. “ It is completely save to host website or application on your PC
using Purplenova because it comes with protection from spam, malware, DOS and other security threats coming from the Internet.

Webmasters questioned about using Purplenova to host their website also cite the extremely low cost of hosting website on servers maintained by professional Web Hosting company as another reason they will not be in a rush to install Purplenova on their workstation, some argued further that even if Purplenova is as reliable, how about other household mishaps like a fuse blowing or the PC hosting your website packing up.

All Webmaster surveyed agree that Purplenova can be used to share be
used to share or make large contents that is already on a PC available on
the Inter net without the need to upload the materials to a third party server, this cannot be used as a substitute for professional Web Hosting.

You can download Purplenova from here
You can find our more information about Purplenova at their homepage.
You can compare Purplenova with Microsoft Home Server here

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