Becoming my own web host

[AnthonyArde]

i`m looking at becoming my own web host as all web hosts these days seem unreliable in my country with bad support.

 

i want to set up a windows solution using apache- can anyone give me more information as to how this works, or direct me to a solid solution that i am able to implement. I require information on security dns and actual implementation of the web host.

 

I have a domain name  a static IP with adsl 1mb line with a pentium 4 30.ghz , 80gb hdd, 512 mb ram onboard graphics with Xp sp2 - i am able to install windows server 2003 in required.

 

Thanks

Anthony

[trq]

I would highly recommend Linux over windows mostly because there is more free software available, but also because it is more secure.

 

It really is quite easy to setup. You can use dyndns as your dns. Then all you need do is make sure your router is configured to route requests to post 80 to the machine that hosts Apache.

 

Thats it pretty much. Of course you'll want to make sure you have a good firewall (iptables if using Linux) setup on the server and you'll probably also want to setup an smtp server.

 

There is a pretty good tutorial on setting up Debian as a web host here. I found lots of bits and pieces of this article helpfull, but didn't really use the whole thing.