Hosting a web site

[AppDev]

Does anyone know how can I host a web site from my webserver at home using a cable connection or in other words a DHCP?
Is there a way that I can do that all by myself without using any of the third parties service like dns2go and that ****
Thank you
By the way I already have a parked domainname

[BodwadUK]

Do you have a fixed IP address(internet)

Do you Have Internet information Services software (IIS 5.0) on your PC (What Windows do you have?)

[mendhak]

He does have IIS, btw. A slightly buggy version at that too

If you don't want to go the dns2go way, you'll have to buy an IP address from your cable operators. Most likely a monthly additional charge.

[JoshT]

Originally posted by mendhak
He does have IIS, btw. A slightly buggy version at that too

If you don't want to go the dns2go way, you'll have to buy an IP address from your cable operators. Most likely a monthly additional charge.

For our cable connection at work, we pay about US$130 a month for 2 static ip address, 2Mbps download/256Kbps upload, if anyone is curious as to how much that costs.

Anyway, if you have an internet connection, and your isp doesn't try to block anything (good ones shouldn't) - you can run a web server and it will be accessible at the ip address you're currently using, even if you connect by dial up. The trick is figuring out what your ip address is and how often it changes.

[AppDev]

Hey Josh
I know my IP address but how would I know how often does it change and assuming I know that how can I keep updating my it to reflect the new one
Thank you

[mendhak]

Originally posted by AppDev
Hey Josh
I know my IP address but how would I know how often does it change and assuming I know that how can I keep updating my it to reflect the new one
Thank you

I surmise, once every day, your IP address will change. Keep doing "ipconfig" (in DOS) to check your IP address for this.

You won't be able to reflect your IP address changes for your website. This is because, you will have to make changes at your DNS servers. A change at a DNS server takes about 72 hours to propagate around the Internet, and your site will be down then. In the meantime, there could be another IP address change, and you'll go and edit it again. In effect, your website would remain down forever.

Hope you understood.

[BodwadUK]

in simple terms;

you need a fixed IP address

[silva]

Originally posted by JoshT
For our cable connection at work, we pay about US$130 a month for 2 static ip address, 2Mbps download/256Kbps upload, if anyone is curious as to how much that costs.

Anyway, if you have an internet connection, and your isp doesn't try to block anything (good ones shouldn't) - you can run a web server and it will be accessible at the ip address you're currently using, even if you connect by dial up. The trick is figuring out what your ip address is and how often it changes.

I'm on a home connection that runs at 2.6Mbps (on average) download/128Kbpos upload.

My IP rarely changes and it costs roughly $90 Australian ($50 USD?) per month.

As for the DNS servers for your hosted website, I would suggest running Apache as the web server, then I believe you can use dns2go as the name server for your domain. You get a client for your computer that will update your IP with the DNS server each time it changes.

That was the way I was going to do it.

s.