Hosting your own site

Whats with all these people who use free hosting and complain about it?

I mean if you have 56k I can understand why, but if you have broadband why do you need to use free hosting?

All you need to setup your own website at home is webserver software, and your computer.

For webserver software, use apache. http://httpd.apache.org

And if you have a router, then use port forwarding and forward port 80 to your local ip address. You wont be able to access your site from its external ip address but you can type in localhost and get to it.

And if you want a dns record so people can access your site without having to go to your ip address (http://123.45.679.0) you can go to www.dhs.org for a free static dns record. If you have a dynamic ip address then use something like www.dyndns.org. Both are free services.

If your internet provider dosent allow webservers to be run, all you need to do is change the port in which its run on, from 80 to something more discreet like 8000 or something.

If you have a static ip address and want a dns record, i can give you whatever.pixeldiffusion.net

Either stop complaning about how your free host sucks, or host you own damn site.

# November 20th, 2002 @ 4:23am in