As I was doing the research to decide what to write about, I came across a tutorial about hosting your owm website that got me so curious, I decided to look into it a little further. You can see it for yourself at 7easystepstohostingyourwebsiteathome.com.
The e-book tutorial has “all the steps you need to take to turn your computer into a web server, so you can host your own website on your own system without the need to pay the hosting company”. It also includes a Free website troubleshooter software in case you run into problems.
Sounds like it has all the information you will need, it’s easy and the price is very reasonable! But do you really want to host your own web site? After all there are quite a few web hosting companies that offer web hosting packages that are loaded with all kinds of things that make running your website easier for amazingly low prices.
The first thing that comes to my mind is that I have always heard about the importance of your web site being online at all times and how all the web hosting companies have gone to such lengths to insure this. Can you really accomplish this on your own? It just seemed like there might be a little more to this, after all if it was that easy, why isn’t everyone doing it?
After looking into this further, I realized that my first instinct was right and there are several important things you need to be aware of before you try this.
The first thing to consider is the expense for the hardware you will need to do this. Your home pc may not be powerful enough to keep up with the server requests when your site receives traffic.
You will need a high speed internet connection, cable & DSL may not be good enough, so you might need to get a dedicated T1 line. Will your ISP even allow you to do this ? Some will with an additional charge, but many do not. Remember, your web site will go down every time you loose internet connection, so it will have to be very dependable!
Another major consideration is that you will have to install, maintain, and monitor all your own hardware and software. Web hosting companies have more resources and technologies in place to insure all this is taken care of. You will either have to take care of everything by yourself or you will have to pay to have it done for you. There is no web host customer service to call if you experience any problems.
Clearly this is not a decision to be taken lightly. Hosting your own web site can be costly and time consuming, but doing so will enable you to have absolute control, with no hosting company to deal with. The only limitation that you have to the changes you want to make are the ones you place on yourself.
If, after careful consideration, you are still interested in hosting your own web site, all the information you will need is available to you at 7easystepstohostingyourownwebsite.com.
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