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| DYNAGOD:
I own several domains and the cost is becoming enweildy to host them. I already pay for premium level internet service, So If i have all this untapped bandwidth sitting idle all the time, what exactly would i need to install on my home XP computer to host my domains on my machine? just an HTML server and phpbb/nuke capability so i would need a DB of somekind. |
| Jabba:
Wouldn't you need a dedicated IP addrress? I think My SQL is what is used for the bb... |
| grueinthebox:
--- Quote from: DYNAGOD on October 27, 2005, 05:16:04 pm ---So If i have all this untapped bandwidth sitting idle all the time, what exactly would i need to install on my home XP computer to host my domains on my machine? --- End quote --- Linux. Assuming you're just hosting personal pages and nothing professional, you could install something like Apache or MS Personal Web Server (which may be included with XP Pro - it was with 2000) on XP. Either will run as a service in the background and serve up web pages. PWS is limited, IIRC, to 10 simultaneous connections, so it won't be good for a high traffic site. But I'd find an old spare computer (doesn't need to be anything even remotely powerful) and install Linux on it to run as a web server. It'll be a lot more stable, and generally less prone to viruses and such. You don't really need a monitor or anything hooked to it unless you're updating the software (rarely) - once you've got it setup, you can pretty much just let it run on it's own. Having a machine (Windows or Linux) dedicated to doing the hosting also means you don't have to worry about downtime when you need to reboot, etc. You don't need a static IP if you use one of the free services like DynDNS, which keeps your IP address current in the DNS entries for your domain. |
| RayB:
Out of curiosity how many sites and what's the unwieldly cost? |
| Santoro:
XP Pro has a full-blown implementation of IIS (Internet Information Server.) |
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