I ran my website from home for a good 6 months. Not too many problems. Just left my home computer on 24/7. I also performed day-to-day activities with this computer. Not very safe, security wise, on my part - but hey... I learned a heck of a lot about hosting and how everything worked.

It's a great learning experience.

Thank you all some nice information !!

I ran my website from home for a good 6 months. Not too many problems. Just left my home computer on 24/7. I also performed day-to-day activities with this computer. Not very safe, security wise, on my part - but hey... I learned a heck of a lot about hosting and how everything worked.

It's a great learning experience.

I believe that is the only case you can host the site at home. Rerally
Do not consider hosting at home in the serious way

Originally Posted by foodguru

Come to listen educational talk.

That is the second the same reply from you...
I wonder what are you referring to?

It's still most proberly cheaper and more practical to host your sites on a shared server, reasons being:

1) Noise Pollution
2) Electricity Costs
3) If your downloading something your websites will go slow to other people

Get some servers & start hosting your website @ home

How about the power outage problem? Maybe you need a backup battery if you really want to host your website at home.

I assume that is not really easy and that could not be involved in the professional level. Just for fun.

I always run a home server in addition to my real servers (rented). I can use it for backlinks and with a static Ip address and a fast upload speed its a great asset to have. IIS is great easy way to serve.

Ebay has good deals on used servers. I run a home server in addition to renting a server. You backbone is what counts. My clients are all on a rented server. A T1 line is minimal for a home server that some one would want to rent space on. The other factor is; sending email from a home server. Too much to deal with, Its better just to rent a server or become a reseller.

Originally Posted by holhost

It is not proffesional to host your website at home!

try to order shared hosting plan

Why? I assume that web site he is going to host is his personal

Notice everyone who recommends against hosting at home also advertises hosting services.

Can you say, "conflict of interest"?

MH-Andy mentioned the cost of electricity. Well, paying a host is probably going to be greater than your electric bill.
He also say's your visitors will suffer when you are doing downloads. That's not completely true. You are uploading to your visitors. If you have cable or DSL, you aren't going to saturate the network unless you are pulling torrents.

As long as you ISP is ok with it, there's no reason not to host your site at home until your traffic starts hitting your bandwidth limits.
One key thing to note, with most ISPs, you upload limit is much smaller than your download limit.

Once you hit your bandwidth limit, you should be making enough money to pay for a host.

Hosting at home is tough and not recommend. You should really know what your doing. Hosting is pretty cheap now and many companys to choose from, better left to the experts.

Notice everyone who recommends against hosting at home also advertises hosting services.

Can you say, "conflict of interest"?

Interesting thought. I believe that web hosting providers do have experience about that instead.
That is not forbidden to try to do that

Just use IIS

Originally Posted by DigitalExtreme

Just use IIS

If he's hosting at home to save expenses, why would he want to use IIS?

Better off running a Linux variant that will look more like a real host when it comes time to switch.

Better off running a Linux variant that will look more like a real host when it comes time to switch.

Most people use windows and IIS is built in. I run IIS 6.0 Server on a 5 meg down 768 up for personal use as well as a rented server for my customers.

If you are look for a personal website you can really do it not for commercial hosting purpose....
first
Good ISP
server operating system
then IIS installation
then dedicated IP
then buy a domain name
then install sql is you need
then it will be live until the hardware is good and the cooling must be very good with in 21degree C

You need the 24 h internet connection also