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- expert01, on 12/11/2007, -2/+20Instead of computers, they're using thousands of slaves who manually determine requests and responses to requests in binary using old morse code equipment.
- expert01, on 12/11/2007, -0/+17Overall decent article. For hosting a domain on your own system, I would recommend Google Apps for email, EveryDNS.net to direct your domain to your static/dynamic IP address, and an Apache or lighttpd server with PHP and MySQL.
lighttpd / Apache Mini: http://portableapps.com/node/10305
WAMPServer: http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php
XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html
PHPDev: http://www.firepages.com.au/
AppServ: http://www.appservnetwork.com/
FoxServ: http://www.foxserv.net/
PHPTriad: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad
I would recommend installing it by downloading each component separately or using the first link, as the packages (in my experience) are too cumbersome. - dakbonsa, on 12/11/2007, -2/+7I just pay a korean company 50 cents a months for my hosting service....
and i always wonder how they make profit off of this. - fac3less, on 12/11/2007, -2/+7Be very careful about allowing PHP on your system without a proper configuration like open_basedir -- which even has exploits.
Honestly, opening yourself up to the world is not a good idea unless you know what you're doing.
Having end-users do this is just asking for trouble :/ - BillGod, on 12/11/2007, -5/+10The absolute best free hosting app is Ubuntu server. Install it and select LAMP install. thats Linux Apache Mysql PHP. its installed and already configured to work. If you download the source and try to compile it. You will just run into problems. LAMP install takes less than 15 minutes on a Pentium 3 and runs VERY well. Just my $.02
- DoverGeek, on 12/11/2007, -1/+5TIP: GoDaddy lets you use their DNS servers for your domain name for free if you registered your domain through them. Their web based config system allows you to do all the A / CNAME record changes through them w/o having to use an intermediary provider.
- freudianslipper, on 12/11/2007, -0/+4for OSX
MAMP: http://www.mamp.info/en/index.php - compuclean, on 12/11/2007, -0/+4Hmmm, seems good. I currently use MS Office Live for http://www.thelaughterfile.eu, which I find a bit... well, tedious. The templates are awful, and the whole aspect of putting a site together is naff.
So I might just be looking into this, and look into hosting myself.
Thanks for the article - dugg! - se1zure, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2unless a free hsot can provide me with php and mysql for free without ads, then it's worth the money to just pay for hosting.
- mehss, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3Where's the fun in that?!!
- se7en11, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2I'm not sure I would blame 1and1 for that though. It's your responsibility to update your new cards information. And if you were down for 2 months it doesn't sound like you use their services very often any how. 2 months is like 2 years on the net.
- se7en11, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3I can vouch for 1and1 as well. I've been using them for over 4 years now and have never had any problems with them. We have a managed server as well as a shared server. Both work great. 100% uptime for us.
- drakethegreat, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3Of course it probably won't survive the digg effect. Really you should not be a cheap ass and just spend 20 more dollars and get a host that will let you buy an entire years worth. Then you just spend $28 and life is much better in terms of the quality and you still don't have to pay again until next year when the domain expires.
- expert01, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2Everything is against TOS
- MWeather, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2You don't need a dedicated box, and most people already have broadband, which will handle more than enough traffic for most people.
- nOOBert, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3I spend $50 bucks every 6 months for 20gb of storage and 1.5TB of bandwidth on a 100mb connection. Where if i were to run my site at home it would be shut down by my ISP if it became popular because it is not a business connection. Oh and my bandwidth would be used up in about 2sec if more then 3 users connected at once because i have 750kb up at home...
- djbon2112, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3Problem: requires a dedicated box (not free), a fast dedicated internet connection (not free) and it's a hassle to find somewhere to put it!
- XIUgraag, on 12/11/2007, -1/+2Put it on digg and we'll see how great it is...
- MWeather, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1I've never done 90% of it before. PHP & Apache I'm familiar with, the rest was my first time. I just used the Ubuntu Community Documentation and the forums.
I even installed lighttpd on port 8080 - duggmania, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1At first I thought this was about the website FreeApps (http://www.freeapps.co.uk) - I though "they don't do hosting!?!" - makes more sense when you read the summary! :)
- MWeather, on 12/11/2007, -1/+2The same can be said of running a PC connected to the internet. Should only pros do that, too?
- officecamel, on 12/11/2007, -4/+5I currently use 1and1 for my hosting needs, and at 10 bucks a month it is worth it to not hassle with trying to host my sites from home. I currently get 250GB of space, and 2.5TB of bandwidth per month. They give me 3 free domains with the business package I am using. Check em out, they have never done me wrong, and saved me many headaches from trying to run my websites across the local ISP.
Here is the link to them: http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=6888159 - raynar, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1awardspace.com
- djbon2112, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1First line of the original guy's post: "The absolute best free hosting app is Ubuntu server". I was replying to that mostly; I've run webservers off my main Windows box, but the OP mentioned a free hosting app, implying a dedicated server and explicitly mentioning Ubuntu.
- DigDugDigger, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1I run a web server off my Comcast connection, not really to run a site (I have a paid host for that) but I find it easy to use Automator to copy things to my Web Sharing folder then give my buddies a link to the file.
- MWeather, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer Zencart, though Magento is shaping up to be a nice shopping cart.
- inactive, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1do any of these let you do a redirect to some other URL?
- inactive, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1freewebs wont host your domain for free..
to use their dns service you apparently have to pay extra.. weak, even if you already OWN your own domain - ryodoan, on 12/11/2007, -2/+3Odd... I have never run into having a home servers port 80 blocked, but I have only had experience with 2 or 3 ISPs.
As for PHP exploitation, its not like most people will be running a mission critical server from their house so I dont think they will have much to worry about. - bulkhater, on 12/11/2007, -1/+2Well, if you read the article, you;d see that almost all your questions are answered there. The article is about free services for hosting a web site, NOT free software for doing it with a spare computer.
Next time try reading the article instead of just replying mindlessly to the comments. - clouseau, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Did your college not have apostrophes?
- theutopian, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1I used godaddy to register and for hosting. I never had any problems at all. And it's cheap.
- MWeather, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1You can install a web server on Windows. MySQL too. Not sure about Bind, but I'm sure there's a DNS server that runs on Windows, if your registrar doesn't provide one. As for speed, my Qwest DSL is plenty fast enough. You don't need to burst a megabit.
- expert01, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1No referral links. Buried.
- heavyal, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1If you're on comcast and you're interested in doing this thing then it would probably be in your best interests to upgrade to the small business plan which is only around 20-30 bucks more and you get a static ip out of it so you dont have to worry about setting up a dynamic dns app of any kind. Further, you people on here saying that port 80 is blocked are idiots, I use comcast and though I hate a lot of the crap they pull, they are not blocking port 80 as I've been using a dyndns system to host family accessible stuff on my home server for several years now.
- maino82, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1i have comcast and my parents have time warner (roadrunner) and i've been able to successfully run a lamp server on both of them. the only problem i've had is comcast blocks port 25 (smtp) so i can't easily do email. roadrunner didn't give any problems with smtp though.
- officecamel, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Exactly. They are going to get their money, so if you can't update your credit card information, you are going to get shut off. It isn't their fault.
- officecamel, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1What do you mean by overpriced? I have never had any support issues with them either.
- MWeather, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Ok, how is it different than say, running an Activex applet?
- maino82, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1sorry replied to the wrong person.
- Derrekito, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Which is probably against TOS.
- heavyal, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1everydns.com - mentioned at the top of this page but worth saying again. Their dns service is always free.
- sexybobo, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1If you went with a crappy Registrar http://www.zoneedit.com/ has free DNS services it is also really easy to do dynamic dns with them if you host your site at home and dont have a static ip.
- expert01, on 12/11/2007, -2/+2First off, you fail for responding to comments of your own comment. Multiple times.
Second, I was on Comcast, Bresnan, and Qwest for quite a while, and none of them blocked ANY ports that I noticed. And I did run a web server on all three. - fuzzypuppy, on 12/11/2007, -0/+0Or maybe you could actually read what I wrote:
"...don't want to go the completely free route..."
"...and a good place to get hosting..."
i.e. I was asking about some good non-free hosting places which I didn't see anywhere in the article, in addition to some extra recommendations on registrars. - djbon2112, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1How do you not need a dedicatedn box? Unless you're already running Ubuntu, but then why would you want to slow down your main rigg by running a webserver off it?
And yes, everythign is against TOS, but that's not what I meant: most cable/DSL connections are heavily upload-limited, and sharing the data between computers slows it even more, so unless you want your end users to download at 2 kb/s you need a fast (symmetrical) dedicated connection. - vyriix, on 12/11/2007, -0/+0nice article for starters who are not familiar with the frills. Google Apps for your domain or Windows Life Community Builder would be a good one to have them emails for your domain imo.
- DoverGeek, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1I would use GoDaddy to register. It depends what you are doing for the latter question.
- fuzzypuppy, on 12/11/2007, -2/+2Okay, here's the obligatory question if we don't want to go the completely free route and don't have a spare computer to host it ourselves:
Can anyone recommend a good place to register my domain and a good place to get hosting (they don't have to be the same places). - heavyal, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1nameboy.com is better, imo.
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