ActiveState, a division of Sophos, is a leading provider of software solutions that increase developer productivity and organizational efficiency through the innovative use of open source technology. Over 70% of the Fortune 500 rely on ActiveState technology, so you can't go wrong here.

Awstats is one of the most popular freeware log analysers around, and for good reason. Report contents are highly configurable with many, many options. Unless you require very particular log reporting, I highly recommend taking a look.

Developer of some very fine pieces of System Administration software. Be sure to check this out.

AutoIt was primarily designed to assist in automatically installing software that cannot be automatically installed by other means. This is most useful during a PC rollout where hundreds or thousands of client machines need to be automatically installed. However, AutoIt is not limited to software installation and can be used to automate most simple windows tasks.

Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows. It's freeware and it's good, I use it myself.

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I've used DynDNS for years to host my DNS records, and never once had DNS related issues, and that was using their free DNS hosting service! I'm now using their pay for use services, and again service is second to none. I highly recommend having a look in the direction of DynDNS for your DNS hosting.

GFI products are based around taking a lot of hardwork out of Systems Administration. Be sure to check their freeware apps out, I consider them to be an essential part of my toolbox.

Net IQ produce a wide range of quality products covering a range of Systems Administration tasks.

PPHLogger is a freeware PHP/MySQL based web statistics program. Make sure you check this one out.

Richard Macdonald has created a very handy collection of tools for Windows 2000 and XP that he has written and included them all into a single download. Richard Macdonald is the author of the very popular RunAs.vbe script I have available for download on this site with his permission. I highly recommend you visit his site and download them.

The Sysinternals web site provides you with advanced utilities, technical information, and source code related to Windows 9x, Windows Me, and Windows NT/2000/XP/2K3 internals that you won't find anywhere else. Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell alone write and update everything here.

Weblog is a neat little log analyser and comes in two flavors, freeware (Weblog Lite) and pay for use (Weblog Expert). I think Weblog provides excellent value, and is well worth a look.