Hi Well I'll probably not blow windows away entirely, what with needing internet explorer occasionally and all that. But I'd never host a website under windows. Apache looks like a much more stable webserver than any windows offering I'd care to mention. I don't know about the MS webserver extentions, but I'm sure I could live without them if apache doesn't handle them. Anyway, I'm guessing that you'd need microsoft internet informationserver to do that and I'm certain that it only runs under NT and win2k which I'm not going to get ... and besides, I hate MS IIS - it's often slower than a wet week. Geoff.