Delphi is a great tool for writing Web server applications of all shapes and sizes, but debugging those applications is difficult, to say the least. I've had some success using IntraBob, which acts as ...

Welcome, dear readers, to the final piece in our long-running "Web Served" series. Starting last November, Ars has been helping to shed light on the fun world of DIY Web hosting—we started with ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...

As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...

When you deploy a web application, how do end users access it? Often web applications are set behind a gateway device through which end users can access it. One of the popular products to act as an ...

Developers in search of a Java application server have no shortage of options to consider. But before any enterprise selects and ultimately adopts a Java application server for development and ...

An application in which all or some parts of the software are downloaded from the Web every time it runs. There are essentially three types of Web applications. Progressive Web apps are browser based, ...

You can upload files to an Apache Web server in two different ways: via a standalone File Transfer Protocol application or a Web-based control panel. Standalone FTP applications act as independent ...

I've always been a big proponent of using NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices for dedicated file and media storage and backup. They are a low-power, low-cost alternative to a dedicated PC server, ...

Microsoft will kill Office Online Server next year, creating a headache for anyone using on-premises Office web applications ...