Hi,

I was just wondering because here many of you must be having their own servers or at least tried! isn't??
I want to know is if i set up a new server on my personal computer! it means if i want to work server 24 hour my computer will remain switched ON! 24/7!
so it will not be effect i mean work for a computer machine for months without any restart or rest????

and how about BILL! what will be the maximum bill cast??
and well Internet isn't too much!!

so hope will help me!
FAISAL!@

Wow, you have lots to learn...
First, if it's on your personal PC, only you can see it, so it doesn't matter about being on... If you were being billed, that means you wouldn't need webhosting here -.- Go get XAMPP, I personally like that.

This post was last modified: 01-15-2008 09:29 AM by Teragonto.

Umm will other people have access to it? or will it just be for testing like on a local network(Your house)?

Because most ISPs won't allow this and will charge you an insane amount or just cut of your internet.

Also I doubt your connection has the upload capability of handling a website that will load fast. (Because if we all did why would so many pay for web hosting)

Also, real web servers are likely to have multiple T1 (very fast connection) lines all going to the server. It is possible to run a server off your home pc but its not going to be worth the cost.
First of all learn all about linux, then learn about linux web servers because thats going to be the best operating system to go with. You will also need to learn how to find and patch bugs on your server.
Once youve done all of this and got some dedicated hardware for your server you can start thinking about setting it up in your home. Otherwise, just pay for proper hosting or a managed dedicated server if you really need the extra space/bandwidth.

Yeah, what everyone has stated is completely right. If you are really that keen on having your own private server and worry about billing, go with http://www.hostgator.com and just buy your own dedicated server. Otherwise, just go with what cmjphp said. Definitely Linux because most servers on the internet use it.

macs can easily be used as a server as it comes with Apache. Here's a tutorial that walks you thru setting your mac up as a server:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Ti...Web_Server

You can also test locally lots of things like PHP or mySQL on macs as well.

I hope this information will help.

How to setup a home server
How to assign a domain name to your home server
How to setup a SSH home server
How to setup a home ftp server
How to control your PC from anywhere

This information was gathered here

This post was last modified: 02-08-2010 04:11 AM by cpusage.

Thanks for those links. I'd never seen the lifehacker website and found more great interesting articles there.