Serving Websites from Home
- Monday, June 07, 2004Thought I'd write a quick post to summarize my research on how best to run your own webserver from home.
Domain Name with a Dynamic IP Address - You'll need to settle this issue first off. You need a static method for others to reach you.
Registering Your Own Domain Name - Instead of surfing to you.othersite.com you'll be able to surf to www.you.com Much better.
Server Software - Next you need software to serve up the pages. Doesn't get any better than Abyss Web Server. Now you can serve up a single site.
Virtual Hosting - Hosting several sites requires some way to direct the website requests to their correct files. Abyss doesn't have this feature out of the box, so you'll need to install PHP and a script.
FTP with Blogger - I'm a big fan of Blogger, so I still want to use their tools to build my site, but want to host it locally. Easier said than done. Get there details from this link.
Easy, right? Any questions?
posted by Kevin Watts | 
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For a free webserver, you might also check out the Apache project http://www.apache.org. They have versions for virtually any Operating System (including Windows and Macintosh), it's relatively easy to set up, and has support for multiple virtual domains. It also works with Perl, PHP, and many other scripting engines. According to Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.co.uk), Apache powers 67% of all webservers, the next highest percentage being Microsoft IIS at only 22%.
Apache web server is not a very good choice when you want a rock solid stable Web Server , Apache tends to take up more memory than Abyss so with smaller server systems , their is a more greater chance of it crashing but Abyss on the other hand never crashes , it knows how to handle its traffic and has a nice admin area with the file size at less than 1 MB , I highly recommend Abyss Web Server over Apache because of the stability it has and all the great new features in the newest beta of v2
Note: Just because it says that 67% of the web is using
Apache web server doesn't mean thats true , its a guess.
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