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While it's a funny comment [laughs...] you should know two things:

1. The FreeDOS Project is not running on its own server. We are being hosted by the kind folks at llamacom, who provide me with space, MySQL, and a few other things including POP email addresses.

2. Yes, there really is a DOS-based web server out there. FISH (FreeDOS Internet Services Host) is running on a '386-SX with 4MB memory. Of course, you don't need a suped up machine like this to run FISH ... it will run on far fewer requirements.

FISH was created really as an example of TCP/IP programming under FreeDOS. I don't think there was a real expectation that this could ever (or should ever) replace Apache for serving web pages. But for a very long time, FISH caught a lot of attention because .... hell, you were running a DOS-based web server! (It was pure hack value, man .... sometimes you gotta do it for the hack value.)

Okay, I just noticed pointers to Llama Communications and HE.net above. Others?

Llama Communications $6.95 a month...I chuckle each time I cut the check.