Power and Simplicity

Despite its name, Webcrossing offers more than just browser-based content. The powerful Webcrossing engine actually integrates a full suite of internet server tools. It can not only deliver web pages through the HTTP protocol, it can also send emails (SMTP). It can provide your users with email addresses they can access via POP3 or IMAP (as well as through a simple web interface). It can be used as a news server (NNTP), or even to transfer files (FTP).

Of course, any $300 Unix box can run all those daemons. What sets Webcrossing apart is the way all these protocols are tightly integrated with its NoSQL database and its online community tools. Making your web content available as an email listserv is a simple as checking a box. Want to send every user post to an external email address? Check a box. Want to pull content from an existing listserv and repost in your community, with subjects preserved and threads intact? Check a box.

What about NNTP? Webcossing can function as its own news server. Each folder within the community can be a separate newsgroup within a hierarchy that mirrors the web interface. You can also push your content to another news server, and thereby publish it to the thousands and thousands of news servers throughout the world. You can just as easily pull content from those same news servers to post on your Webcrossing community.

And you can do all of this without ever going near a command line, or writing complicated scripts to control how emails or news postings are translated into your community hierarchy. It really is just a matter of checking a few boxes.

Power and simplicity: that's Webcrossing.