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Originally Posted by Gamer1
if i were you guys, and if i have either cable or dsl, host it yourself!!! i suggest a program called apache for web hosting. It's free, and your space is only limited to your hard drive
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Interesting suggestion, but you should also include these tips/warnings:
1. Your ISP might not like you doing that. Be sure to check your TOS first.
2. If you are assigned a dynamic IP address then your site can be difficult to find. You'll have to use a service such as dyndns.org in this case or talk your ISP into letting you have a static IP address.
3. If you're behind a hardware firewall, set it so port 80 redirects to your PC. If you aren't behind any firewall (software or hardware), install one.
4. If you have a computer you don't regularly use on your LAN, install Linux or *BSD on it and set it up as your webserver. Then have your router redirect port 80 to that computer. This way, you don't have to always have your computer running, and httpd won't be eating up the CPU and memory resources on your computer.
5. Keep in mind download speeds for your visitors depend on your upload speed and the number of visitors you have. If you typically have more than 5-10 visitors at once, or want to make large files available to broadband users, then hosting on your own computer isn't an option. It's just too slow.