What is HostName Commander?
HostName Commander™
is a software utility that helps you manage the relationships between the host names and the IP addresses of the computers.
HostName Commander lets you associate any host name with a specific IP address of your choice.
If you are a web developer, you will find it convenient to use HostName Commander to quickly switch between the development and production servers while working on your web scripts and web pages. Note: This product is not supported.
If you develop complex, interactive web sites, you probably design them on your local development server, before uploading the web pages and scripts to the production server. For example, if the domain name of your web site is www.mycoolsite.com, then during the development phase you want the host name www.mycoolsite.com to point to your development server (or to your own computer, if you don't have a separate development server). When the development is finished and the site goes live, you want the name www.mycoolsite.com to point to your production server, to make you able to test the live web site and see it just like the rest of the world does. When developing and maintaining a non-trivial web site, you are probably switching back and forth between the development and productions servers may times. If you do that by manually editing the Windows HOSTS files, you have probably wondered many times, there should be a better way of doing it, haven't you?
As a matter of fact, there IS a better (as in faster and more efficient) way of managing your host names, and this is what HostName Commander is all about. With HostName Commander you are be able to switch the server your web site name points to with just a couple of clicks of the mouse, any time of the day or night, and see the result immediately (well, almost immediately). When you need to test the web site on the development server, you would use HostName Commander to make the host name www.mycoolsite.com to resolve to the IP address of your development server (such as 127.0.0.1, if it's your own computer, or something like 192.168.0.5, if the development server is on your LAN). When you no longer want the host name of your site to resolve to the development server, HostName Commander would let the DNS server resolve it to the IP address of the production server.
If you tried to manage the host names manually before, you know that the web browser cache is often causes annoying problems when you switch the host name from one server to another: even when you make the host name to point to a new server, the web browser keeps displaying the pages from the cache that it previously downloaded from the old server. To solve this problem, you would need to manually open the web browser cache and clean or empty it after each change to the host name. With HostName Commander this problem is no longer a problem: it can clean up the browser cache for you automatically after each change from the development to production server (and back), removing from the cache only the pages which belong to the web site affected, and leaving the rest of the browser cache intact.
HostName Commander comes especially handy when you develop a large number of different web sites for different clients. HostName Commander lets you see and control all host names of the web sites you manage using the convenient and straightforward user interface, that lets you manipulate the host names of your web sites quickly and easily.
Even if you do not develop web sites, you can use HostName Commander to:
See the HostName Commander User's Guide for the more information on how to use it and what you can do with it.
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