Unlike most servers of the era, WebSTAR was very Mac-like in terms of installation and maintenance, using a number of AppleEvents-based MacOS programs for most tasks.
One popular use of WebSTAR was in combination with FileMaker to make simple database-driven online applications.
The product traces its roots to the earlier MacHTTP, released as shareware by Chuck Shotton in 1993.
StarNine was purchased by Quarterdeck Office Systems shortly after the release, and along with many upgrades to WebSTAR the company also released Quarterdeck Mail for the Mac, and a little-known Microsoft Windows version of WebSTAR that quickly disappeared.
They released a Carbon version for Mac OS X in 2001, which added the ability to directly run Unix-based CGIs.