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Lol i did, it made no Sense, >.>

 

I am looking into Hosting a website, But i heard You can do Just as well off of a Personal Computer, Now i was interested by this, because this could save me a lot of Monthly fees, and hassle with a web hosting company. but i have no idea how to do something like this, So i was wondering if someone could give me some info on doing something like this. Maybe some things that i need to know and Just helpful hints :).

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If you have no idea how to do it, I would suggest not doing it. Your site and server will get hacked.

 

It is easy enough to do for a simple personal website however. You will need a fast internet connection with at least 512 of upload bandwidth. Your ISP will also need to allow hosting of services.

 

If all that is in place you simply setup a dedicated machine with the LAMP stack on it and allow your router to forward port 80 to this machine.

 

There are then services around like dyndns.org (the one I use) which for a small fee will host your domain name and provide you with a DNS service.

 

If you are interested in doing this for a few personal sites, Id'e say go ahead, its a great learning experience. But if you planned on hosting any client sites I wouldn't recommend it without a fair bit of experience in *nix server admin.

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If you know what you are doing, then its probably best to use your own. I run serveral servers, not from my house anymore because unforunately I can't get a quick enough connection. I hire a few VPS's which I then maintain.

 

Again though, I say you need to know what you are doing. Otherwise, your probably best to leave it to the people who do know what they are doing.

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