Webhosting?

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ekorazn

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So I have a pretty decent computer that'll soon have about 1gb in memory so that I can use it as a server.

I'm going to use this server for webhosting for a site I'll make. The problem is how? I'm a nub at linux, but i'm pretty sure that'll be the best to use. I'm pretty much starting out from scratch, so if any of you guys have done this before, please post/link to anything.

But one question I have is can i change the web address of this server, or will it have to be in numerical numbers? And what ports do i need to open if I have a router?

For a server, uploading is all that matters right? Or does the download speed of my ISP count in its performance? The reason I ask is that I have DSL pro and it has a better upload speed than cable (and it's also not regulated).
 
Welcome to the wide world of webservers!

Here is what I suggest. Run it on Windows , nothing fancy , Win98se will work fine or XP or whatever you want. Why windows? cause you don't know much about linux , and you don't know much about running a server , this way you only have to fool around and learn one and not have an error down the road and not know if its ur conf for apache or your o/s config.

Next i recomend Apache , thats what i use on mine. Very easy to setup. Apache.org i beleive is the address, its free and personaly i think its a shit load better then IIS.

you dont have to use ur ip address if you dont want too. two things you could do. The easiest is get a dynamic ip address from dyndns.org , you get a little program that tells their server when your ip changes. I assume you have a dynamic ip cause you use DSL. then you have a ursite.dyndns.org name and that will always point to ur ip and ur site. Harder way is register a domain name then use something like zoneedit.com (free name server) and have it point to ur ip.

as for ports the default is 80 , some ISP's block this port so their users dont setup servers , so you might have to change it to something like 8080 which can be done in your apache config.

once you got it all up and running (and working) then you can install the fancy stuff like php and mySQL.

hope that helps , if you have any problems or questions with any of that just post away.
 
that is a lot of info, THANKS.

Alright I'll see what i can do and post away :)
 
I have a link somewhere at home to help setup apache, php, & mysql on windows, let me see if I can find it tonight, it goes step by step and really helped me get everything setup right.
 
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