Webhosting/webserver Question

jdiaz5 · Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 2

Hi there folks..I dont want a third party webhost like bravenet or others. I dont want to pay monthly fees...I want to host my own website. what do I need to do? Do I need to buy me a webserver and install Win2k3 server OS and am I ready to go? What is it that I need to do? Or can I make my existing PC a webserver or is a webserver specifiacally made for website hosting. I found a webserver ALienWare for $1100 or what do you recommend.
Alienware Hivemind Server for $1069

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Wolfden · Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 150

what are you planning to do with it??

it doesn't take much of a pc to host a basic site, IIS will be your friend for with windows world

jdiaz5 · Joined: Oct 03, 2005 Posts: 2

Hi Wolfden..thanks alot for responding...I would like to host my Comic Book website consisting of about 10 HTML pages and my other personal/resume website. You say I dont need a server then? Where can I get IIS?

Fastway · Joined: Dec 14, 2002 Posts: 1951

Question would be, how many hits do you expect per site?
That would help determine your connection speeds and your server speeds.
What kind of data are you going to serve strait html, flash, QuickTime, database driven pages??
Do you expect only one web site(domain name) or more???

Most likely if you want to serve a 10 page or so html site 1 gig of processor and 1 gig or ram with a fast HD would be fine for the machine. Your real bottle neck would be the internet connection most of the time anyway.

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Windows 2003 server web edition is all you need if you decide to go with a windows based solution and you need to host multiple sites. Windows XP has a simpler version of IIS 5.1 but it is designed for 1 web site and it also limits the amount of concurrent connections to the web site you can have, I think it is 10?? maybe...

So like I said what are you going to serve??? and how many???