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Self Hosting a Web site


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In the next few weeks I will begin a total redesign of mycurrent website and at the moment i am consedring a new a host. One option of hosting i was looking into is self hosting the web site. How would i go about doing this? Any idea on the software hardware i will need?

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use linux which is free or BSD which i believe is also free.

The IIS service in NT or Win2k may be the easiest for those used to the windows environment, but it's also the most expensive :(

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The running of a web server for your own learning, and or experimenting is highly recommended. Apache would be a great choice, IIS might be somewhat easier to get up and running for someone unfamiliar with web servers. And most likely you have everything you need to get one going - if you have a machine running a MS OS.

But I would suggest until you are confident with the administration and security of running your own webserver. You find a host that provides the services you are looking for, php, mysql, email, perl, .asp, etc.. etc.. at a price you can afford.

There is alot more to running a webserver than just clicking setup. And it todays world security should be priority one - needless to say most likely the running of a web server is against your ISPs AUP anyway.

Again I would suggest you play and tinker with any of the many web servers available - but before you make it available to the public net, have a complete understanding of what is involved in running a secure server.

All the world needs is another unsecured server open to the public ;)

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you could host with us :p $5/monthly gets you everything you need, link is in sig.

otherwise i would recommend getting apache for winders and mysql, try to find an old system to use as a server, get a router, etc. i did that for a while, its kinda fun heh.

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