hosting my own website from home

can anyone please help me!

[engsamerabdalla]

hi there!

can anyone please tell me: what is the steps to host a successful website from home?

regards,

[Frequent]

Although I can't answer your question, I would like to ask you another.

Why would you want to host it from home when you can get VERY inexpensive hosting from hundreds of companies that can provide live support and very likely far better reliability (up-time) with superior equipment?

If you are doing it just so you have a better understanding of how hosting works that's cool. But if you are actually wanting to publish a number of sites on the web I'd go with a reseller account.

Freq---

[physics]

I have a friend who does this for his personal pictures site.
He has a cheap or free hosting account which the domain name points to.
Then a script on his home machine sends it's IP to that free account every hour and reports it's current IP.
So when people go to his example.com site they get redirected to his home computer IP (through a non-80 port since his ISP blocks port 80 for this very reason).
This way he can have 400gb of his pictures online and not have to pay the bill for hosting with so much space.
I wouldn't recommend it for a commercial site though.

[too much information]

I just set up hosting on my Cable line and the only thing I had to do was to set up my wireless base station to direct port 80 to the correct local IP (10.0.1.whatever)

If you have a wireless base station connected to your DSL or Cable Modem, check to see how to map your ports to the correct local IP and that's all you should have to do.

[physics]

too much information, do you have a dedicated IP with your cable company? If not your site will be down for a while after every time your IP changes while the DNS propogates after you change the IP in your domain name manager right?

[bill]

Don't forget mack's great post: Hosting from home [webmasterworld.com]

[Boogie_Jack]

Never done it so I can't help with that, but would offer one thing for you to think about before doing it.

Have you noticed how your computer slows down with the longer it's on and the more programs you have open? How many users do you think would be accessing your home-hosted site at once? If it's very many, think about how slow it could be with dozens, or perhaps hundreds of people demanding processing power. Not only might it slow down for them, but you might have a hard time using it yourself if it's your working computer.

Just a thought.

Dennis
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[edited by: trillianjedi at 12:21 pm (utc) on Nov. 1, 2005]
[edit reason] No Sigs please [/edit]

[too much information]

I don't have a dedicated IP, but I'm on cable so as long as I don't reset my modem it's ok. Besides I'm using it as a testing server not as my primary server so it is not a big deal if the IP changes.

I did come up with a quick fix incase I wanted to use the server to host images and other things. I have a page that my server hits every 30 min that grabs the IP and stores it in a database on my primary site. If I wanted to host my images from home to save on hosting fees I just have to pull the IP from my database to verify the location of my images. At most I'd be down for 30 min.