Depends on what kind of pages and amount of traffic you will be serving.
If it's mostly text content you won't need much bandwidth to serve up
web pages. A commercial broadband service will probably be required to
get a static IP, at least that's what Cox cable in my area required.
With just 512kb up (about 50K per second) it works ok for basic web
serving. A nice UPS battery backup can keep a Mac mini and a cablemodem
going for quite a while. The web sharing checkbox is gone in preferences
on OSX 10.10 but Apple still bundles the Apache web server, which you
can turn on via terminal commands. You can still play and set things up
to serve pages just to yourself on your local network before you go
live. Registering a domain through somebody like GoDaddy is $10 for a
year and up to $14.50 for 10 years. For that much it might make sense to
register your domain before somebody else takes it even if it does
nothing but sit there for a while.
CB
On 6/23/15 10:09 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Thanks, Krysti. that's about what I thought, and right now I probably
don't have a strong enough infrastructure to do it. good to know,
though, if we ever move back to a place where we get better internet
service, I might give it a try.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jun 23, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Krysti .Power <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You need a decated computer needed to be left of all time time a
static IP address good upload speed and have to see up port
forwarding on your router
On Jun 23, 2015 10:58 AM, "Donna Goodin" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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. Please excuse
spelling errors.
>>
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