[nirui]

The question might looked silly now, but the originally submitted title was "How to run a DOS-based Web Server (seriously)". Which is still the title of the article.

Since it was including the word "seriously", I thought maybe I should just ask about it for sure. It's not really fun if it's a simple web page hosted on FreeDOS one fine day, a hacked BIOS another.

I got it, it's a fun project made for fun, but still, security is always something to think about.

I learned it the hard way from my childhood SOCKS 5 proxy experiment where I tested a SOCKS 5 proxy on public network. Long story short, within 2 days of running it, one guy discovered the port via scanning, proxied it to login to my ISP account without a password (that's how the ISP set it up), and then stole all the funds in it by purchasing value add-on services for himself. It was a seemingly an all harmless and fun experiment until that happened.

My point it, if the OS don't support such basic security feature (and many other security features), maybe it's just not worth the effort? (other than just-for-fun of course)