[dba-Tech] How can I set up a web-server at home?

[John Colby]

 >but it's still complicated, a chronic maintenance problem, about as 
unreliable as your weather and your cats. Most always it turns out to be 
way less effort to buy shared hosting for pennies a day.

Uhh yep.  And a constant security risk.

On 1/7/2016 1:32 PM, Peter Brawley wrote:
> On 1/7/2016 11:10, Arthur Fuller wrote:
>> I have three computers plus a tablet. Two of the three are running 
>> Win 10,
>> with the third currently on Win 7. I want to set up a local 
>> web-server on
>> that third box, which currently mostly does nothing but consume
>> electrcricity. I have a solid cable connection.
>>
>> What I need is a recipe for how to turn this ancient box into a 
>> web-server
>> that will host my own site. Can anyone help or at least point me to
>> articles about this subject?
>>
>> I don't expect a large amount of traffic -- maybe a dozen or so visitors
>> per day.
>
> It can be done with Microsoft tools eg ...
>
> http://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-to-host-a-web-site-from-your-computer/ 
>
> http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1774
>
> but arrrgh. You can do it more efficiently with generic tools eg ...
>
> http://superuser.com/questions/536533/for-hosting-and-publish-a-website-at-home-computer 
>
>
> but it's still complicated, a chronic maintenance problem, about as 
> unreliable as your weather and your cats. Most always it turns out to 
> be way less effort to buy shared hosting for pennies a day.
>
> PB
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