Don't Let them scare your
Hi again,
Don't let them scare you. Running a server with omnihttpd is very easy to do. My younger brother who is 13 years old just set one up on his computer the other day. He is very computer literate, but this wouldn't of been a hard task even if he had just gotten his computer. All it requires is that you know your IP address, you can fill out a few forms on a website, and you can install software, and set a few variables.
Now time to let them scare you. Win 95 is a bad operating system to run a server on, since your IP address will be readily available to the public, and the fact that you can be nuked by malicious users when they send a command to your IP address, basically given you the blue screen until you reboot. This problem is fixed with win98, so I recommend getting that first. Also win98 is more stable all the way around.
Another scare... If you are on a modem that is 56k or slower, this site is going to be extremly slow to the person connecting to it. I reccommend getting a cable modem or dsl, with dsl i reccommend getting some firewall software. With cable, at least mine, a firewall would not be necessary.
Any questions? Feel free to ask.
OK, Well I got a question since that one seems to be answered(ish)
Ahem.
So far I managed to get a free domain name (www.brekfast.co.uk) and free cgi access so I can make a killer page. One more thing I cant seem to get for free though SSL hosting... PLEASE could someone tell me what the cheapest way of getting SSL hosting would be - and if it would be possible (somehow, although I cant see how) to get SSL without having to pay whoever hosts SSL for domain hosting and webspace, cgi etc, since, as I said, I already got those free.