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Try http://www.freevirtualservers.com You get Free PHP, MySQL and 100 MB Web Space and all you pay for is the Domain Name (which I guess you would have to pay for anyway) - I have used these for a year for a site without any major issues and found the company to be quite helpful when problems arose. Regards, Dave. -----Original Message----- From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 05 July 2009 22:59 To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [LUG] Hosting a site on my PC. Julian Hall writes: > Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: >> Yes, it�s perfectly possible; there�s no particular reason why you can�t >> run server software on a desktop (unlike Windows, where you often can�t >> because of licence stuff). >> > Not so in my experience. I've run IIS on Windows 2000 Pro quite happily > and as it's an internal component to Windows there are no licensing > issues. That was IIS3 and I believe the current incarnation (Vista et > al) is IIS 5. >> No, I wouldn�t particularly recommend it; for a start, ADSL is (as the >> name suggests) asynchronous � much, much more download than upload >> bandwidth, so actually serving a site is going to be quite slow and may >> also interfere with your normal usage. > Not forgetting your ISP's 'Fair Usage' policy. If they decide that (even > incoming) traffic to your IP is too heavy they might decide to clobber > you for it. > Kind regards, I'm not expecting masses of traffic. The cheepest offer I could find for hosting and domain names was around £60.00. Now If I could do the same by just doing the IP fowarding and other things explaines it works out a lot cheeper. Yes it will be an interesting learning excercise also but it's mostly because I can't justify the £60.00 on a website to my wife. Thanks for the advise about doing this. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html