A startup, Infinishare Technologies (http://www.infinishare.net/), has introduced "Web-Plus," a novel technology that allows any PC with an Internet connection to function as a Web-server. Until now, only computers with "real" Internet (IP) addresses could function as Web-servers for web-hosting. The new technology allows home computers or office computers behind firewalls, proxies, NAT routers, etc to web-host irrespective of the type of Internet connection or network settings.

Resources on these computers can now be accessed with HTTP URLs (Unique Resource Locators) just like any other hosted web page today. The technology does not require content readers to have any software or plugin installed other than regular Internet Browsers, and therefore provides advantages over P2P or VPN technologies in use today. Moreover, unlike hosting with web-hosting service providers where the content resides on the storage of the service provider, with Infinishare, it resides on the user computer, and files travel securely end-to-end only when accessed by a reader.

There are potentially many applications where this technology can be leveraged, including Remote Monitoring, CRM, Collaborative Tools, Enterprise Reporting, Publishing, Ecommerce sites, auctions, On-line Communities etc. Infinishare's business model is to be a technology provider, licensing the technology for integration and bundling into other applications.