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i think www.freehomepages.com does

Chopsticks....I have tryed that before...Dunno if now they do but in past they didn't...

thats one good reason to see if it does cuz it worked for me until they shrank the 50 megs to 5 megs

But how do we launch our own server?

If you mean having your own server on your own pc or designated server then what you need is apache. Also PHP for PHP pages and for forums and things, you need MySQL (or similar).

For Apache click here

For MySQL click here

For PHP click here

I may make a html guide on how to set this up with pics and zip it and upload it for you

(It can be tricky, Win XP is recommended).

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Originally posted by jren207

(It can be tricky, Win XP is recommended).

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no, a linux box is recomended

beware that ur connection speed will suffer...... and pray to w/e diety u want that u don't get famous, or else u'll be SOOOOO slow on a home connection.

lol, I have dial-up , (but some light asking and I might get broadband )

I'm only used to XP but i'm sure other OS's are simple...

And if you had the money and a fairly fast connection, you could have a little computer setup specifically as a web server....

a web server set up on a home server? lol. for anyone in another country your site will crawl for them, downloading files will be tedious and extremely slow (your upload speed would be split between all visitors) so if you have just 5 or 6 people on the site on a 576/256k connection, if 2 or 3 of them were downloading files then they'd get about 10kbs each...

I don't get that many visitors on my site (although it's down now while i'm optimising my PC.)

If you did setup your own PC as a web server, you could use it for sharing a page of photos for your family or something...

im so lazy to check all the posts and view all the serves that you put...
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