I am thinking of setting up my own web server from my PC, but i am unsure what apps i should be using and what protection for my pc i need. I am currently running a Athlon1600XP with a 512 cable connection plus Windows XP home Edition. Any information would be a great help

Thanks

Tom upton

Originally posted by tomupton
I am thinking of setting up my own web server from my PC, but i am unsure what apps i should be using and what protection for my pc i need. I am currently running a Athlon1600XP with a 512 cable connection plus Windows XP home Edition. Any information would be a great help

Thanks

Tom upton

I dont know if you can do it with XP Home Edition. What I would suggest is either using and old box p2 500mhz would be fine and throw linux on it and setup apache you could use your new box but that would kinda be a waste. There is also a new program out that allows you to run 2 OS's at the same time that might be something you want to look into ..

I don't really want to buy a new machine, do you know if i can dual install on my machine. I have a copy of Windows 2000 if this would be any use? I have heard that it has more capabilities than XP home.

Tom

A buddy of mine ran a small website, that received about 100 unique visitors a day. When there would be a couple users on the site, and one user downloading one of his software applications, and a couple browsing the site. It would almost slow down to a stop. He had a dual connection (ghetto rig). With a DSL & Cable line. And used the Analog X Simple Server software (avail at www.analogx.com).

My personal favourite for small-site and development web servers:

Sambar - http://www.sambar.com

I've used this system for years. Because it's not IIS you don't have to worry about constant security threats, because it support ISAPI you get all the functionality you want with scripting languages like PHP with very little hassle to setup. Another advantage is that Sambar is extremely good on resources, great framerates in a game of stress-relieving Quake 3 even when the server is running and in use!

Sincerely,

-Matt

Originally posted by OKIHost
I dont know if you can do it with XP Home Edition.

Why not? Even Windows 95 could run a web server.

Ya, just not IIS. You can use win32 apache or lots of other solutions.

Some ISPs have rules against hosting sites. Check with your Cable Provider for info. Also if your only hosting one site then try using something like AnalogX or something found at Download.com

XP is fine for hosting a small site. 2000 is needed if you wanna host multiple sites.

Thanks

i suggest just pay 2-5$ per month, if u can pay for a 512 internet cable, can't u spare a meger 5 bucks?

Are you going to run a hosting company or do you just want to run one web site from home?

Running one small web site is fine, although you will need to read your TOS with your ISP. Most say, "You cannot run a server" and a lot of them block certain ports like port 80, 20, and 21 so that you can't run web and ftp servers on the default ports.

If you are thinking of running a hosting company over a cable modem, I think you will run into serious problems. Bandwidth will be a problem, if you use the computer for something else (like word processing), you will have performance issues, and if you are running XP Home Ed, I don't think you can run virtual web servers anyway.

Even in XP Pro, you can't run a web server on port 443, so if any of your clients want SSL, they will be SOL. Does XP Home even have IIS available? I think you have to run Personal Web Server or something like that.

http://www.dslwebserver.com has heaps of info:)

Good luck:)