Hi everyone

You can do all this and more on your own connection. Well, let me clarify that.

As long as your ISP doesn't block port 80, you should be fine.

Anyway, there's a whole bunch of lessons that'll show you exactly what to do at:

DIY Webserver / Hosting

Yes, that's a shameless plug for my own website running at home that shows you how to run your own website from home. :)

Mods - sorry if this is against the rules, but there seem to be so many people wanting to do this.

My connection has been up for 1477 hours (61 days) and 23 minutes, and I haven't experienced any problems with viruses, attacks or anything of that nature.Whenever I need to reset the server or the router, the client software on the server contacts my dynamic service provider and updates my IP address - so its a no brainer actually!

Anyway, if you visit, please leave a comment about how I can make the site better, or is there anything else you'd like to learn about.

Thanks everyone.

Cheers

Brad

-reply by Brad

Hi everyone

You can do all this and more on your own connection. Well, let me clarify that.

As long as your ISP doesn't block port 80, you should be fine.

Anyway, there's a whole bunch of lessons that'll show you exactly what to do at:

DIY Webserver / Hosting

Yes, that's a shameless plug for my own website running at home that shows you how to run your own website from home. :)

Mods - sorry if this is against the rules, but there seem to be so many people wanting to do this.

My connection has been up for 1477 hours (61 days) and 23 minutes, and I haven't experienced any problems with viruses, attacks or anything of that nature.Whenever I need to reset the server or the router, the client software on the server contacts my dynamic service provider and updates my IP address - so its a no brainer actually!

Anyway, if you visit, please leave a comment about how I can make the site better, or is there anything else you'd like to learn about.

Thanks everyone.

Cheers

Brad

Hi Brad, the website contains really useful information for poeple who are starting with hosting thier own website. It contains some advanced topics on setting up mail servers and things like that, I particularly found the information on infinite responder to be of lot of help to me. Keep up the good work.

There is also a way to use our own top level domains. We can use no-ip.com services to update the current IP address of home server to the free subdomain they provide, and then webforward this subdomain to the top level domain using services offered by zonedit.com. This can be useful in case when we need to move the site to remotely hosted servers, and also one can easily switch services without worrying about the visitors lost.

Brad, is the site running on windows or linux? I suppose its on windows as all the articles are written for the windows OS. But then I am amazed at the stability and up time. Could you brief us a little about the security measures you have taken to prevent attacks and viruses if any, it would be helpful.

This post has been edited by Spencer: Oct 14 2009, 04:47 PM

Currently no problem.
Most of self-advertising posts are against our rules.
However, your post simply say "yes, it works on my computer, come and I will explain how it works", this is perfectly clear, honest and acceptable. This is exactly right in the center of our forum scope, which aim is to help people, providing technical solutions to their problems.