Hello: That’s actually pretty hard to do if you don’t have the experience. You have two options. Well, three actually.
First, if you have a stable connection and a lot of bandwidth depending on your visitors and the type of content you serve, you -could- serve from home. You will need a dedicated system to do this and a good setup, as well as a static IP address. This really isn’t recommended but it’s doable. Second you have two choices. You could either get a VPS (virtual private server) or a dedicated server. VPS servers are ran by a company who runs multiple servers on one machine through virtualization technology. They use KVM or xen and it’s really fast for most people. Prices range from $10+ depending on what you’re needing. I recommend two companies: http://linode.com <http://linode.com/> and: http://digitalocean.com <http://digitalocean.com/> I’ve had good experience with both. Your second option and more expensive is to run a dedicated server. Mine currently runs $120 from: http://arpnetworks.com <http://arpnetworks.com/> Specs are: 1 1 tb platter drive 16 gb ram 3.4 GHZ quad core intel zeon. You would generally choose a dedicated server over a VPS when you exceed the resource limits. For example something with that configuration on Linode would probably not catch up to the 1 tb in storage I have and cost me way more. Now there’s a pitfall to all of this; you need to know Linux or BSD well (really well). I deal with security threats about once a week, optimize and work on my website based on visitors (I’m hosting a few others), etc. If you want your own email that’s another set of issues because you’ll be tuning things there. For example I just added some more stuff to my system to help deal with spam a lot better. It’s a time investment that you don’t have if you pay someone else to do it for you. Please let me know if you have any more general questions. Thanks, > On Jun 23, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know this is way off topic, but this thread touched on something I've been > thinking about for a while. How would I go about being my own host? My > sites are currently hosted with a group called A2 Hosting, but I've been > wondering about hosting them myself. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:12 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> First you can play with HTML without buying anything. You can put text edit >> in "plain text" mode and start writing your first html file. Then load that >> in Safari to check your work. You'll just flip back and forth adding stuff >> and reviewing. Once you've got the hang of HTML then I'd start thinking >> about hosting and setting up a domain name. So in text edit, before you >> create a new file go to preferences and set the format radio button to Plain >> text. Name your file something ending in either .htm or .html such as >> MyFirstWebPage.html and then you can start putting html in there. Once you >> have saved that file somewhere you can open MyFirstWebPage.html in Safari to >> review the results. >> >> There are piles of free tutorials out there so just google around. Web pages >> are generally three general buckets. HTML is the content with markup >> sprinkled around to tell what the content is such as a paragraph, list or >> table. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets where you can make, for example, all >> the headings a certain font or add margin to paragraphs. The last most >> complex bit is javascript which is code that can manipulate the content or >> the styles, usually in reaction to user events such as mouse clicks or >> keystrokes. >> >> CB >> >> On 6/22/15 6:29 PM, Nancy Badger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I am thinking of building a very simple website. I have never done this >>> before. I have no idea how or where to start. I know I need to get a >>> domain name. How do I do this? Is there an accessible program to use one >>> building a website are there tutorials? Thanks for any help you can provide. >>> Nancy >>> >>> Nancy Badger, Ph.D >>> Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services >>> UT Chattanooga >>> Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. 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