Server
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Geoff
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Do you mean put it on your home PC? Then yes, i've done it before. The downside is your web address is your ip, so if you wanted it to be a real site name then you would need to purchase a transfer.
And you would need a good upload speed if there will be pictures, music, or videos on there.
And you would need a good upload speed if there will be pictures, music, or videos on there.
Honestly, if you have and computer sitting aound I would use it until you start getting jammed with 1000 hits a day and then you could step up to a faster computer. It doesn't take a very fast machine to host a web-site. It only needs to fast if you plan on using it as a web-server, dns server, dhcp server, data server,........ect, but if all you are doing is hosting a site anything with modest speed should work. Your upload times (internet speed)will probably in most cases be your bottleneck.
In fact, that's quite the overkill .. even commercial dedicated servers start with base Celerons
Been awhile since i did this webserver stuff but 1K hits per day isnt all that much traffic to say, overload a system or anything
lee101
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have you considered renting a server, or your own webspace as it could end up being costly to run, you have to buy the hardware, maintain it, pay for it's power, and you will be slowed down by your internet connections upload speed, although as for specs you need basically nothing for a simple web server, i got apache, php, mysql running well on a p3 450 mhz and 64mb ram, and it was still able to be used as a normal pc, print and file server at the same time