Use my home server to run my website

[Kermit911]

Hello all,

How would I set up or what program could I get to make my home server run my website? If you know what I mean. I would like to have my server thats at my house, run my website on the web. Any ideas?

PS: I'm using Solaris 9 on a SUN UltraSPARC 2

Thanx all
Kermit

[entrecon]

The first thing you would need to do is make sure that your ISP allows you to host from home. I would hate for you to lose your internet connection over it.

Second, you need to figure out how your ISP identifies your computer. In most cases they don't give you a set IP number, it will refresh after a certain period of time. If they give you a set IP, you are all set, otherwise you will need some kind of software to update the information.

Someone with more knowledge than I will need to give you more specifics once you figure out the above.

[HalfaBee]

You also need to consider the bandwidth required, remeber that upstream speeds tend to be one 0.1 of download speed.

You basically just need to install Apache and sendmail or qmail to make a home server, after checking entrecon's suggestions.