i have a computer that was a normal pc .. my system ram is 2 gb processor 2ghz athlon 170 u i am new to webserver any one help me to build my own server .. please help me guys
Why do you want to turn your pc into a server? If you are new to webserver and want to learn then your best option is to buy a cheap vps.
Don't host your site at home. First of all your home pc will consume a lot of electricity when you keep it on 24 hours a day everyday. Secondly home pcs aren't made to run continuously. It will die very soon.
There is no problem for running a home pc for 24/7..... in fact you will find many "unlimited" shared hosts start off this way. But realistically, home PC's are made to be turned off. You might have constant heat, noise (and as mentioned before, the power bills will be constant for the pc to run) and eventually, when you need to reset your pc, yes, your website will have downtime. Some ISP's do not allow you to host at home, some might block ports that you require and so on. Looking at power costs of a standard PC, then realistically, if you are hosting a simple HTML site, or a basic PHP site, then it is cheaper to sign up for shared webhosting, under $5 per month should be lower then the power costs for alot of different computers. The advantages of hosting in a data center is uptime, high speed network, redundant power backup systems, raid protected hard drives (normally which means you wont lose data *if* a hard drive fails), as well you get security. Hosting at home might make your home computer more vulnerable to attack. IMO, It is only worth considering to host from home if it is either for fun / learning, or for running something that cannot be run from shared hosting and requires renting an expensive vps or server.
Don't use it to host websites on the internet. Instead, run it as a local server with apache, you can use it as a test machine locally and even use it as a media server if you like in your home. Also, you can setup OpenVPN on it and use it to connect to when you are away on public wifi.
thank you friends i got well reply's .thank you so much everyone ..i know the electricity will arise and also my system die better to take vps ..i dont know about vps . actually what is vps?
vps is "virtual private server" you get a small part of a computer, but the ram, and HDD, and CPU they give you is guaranteed. I once had a VPS from sshvm.com and they were very good. The support is NONE, but they give you a system that makes it easy to install almost any operating system (it will be linux options), and they were the only ones that I ever found that allowed for installing the operating system, AND kloxo, which makes it easy to get started in hosting sites. (kloxo is control panel for vps that can run on small vps with 64mb ram-512mb ram, and its free. Cpanel is better, but can cost $25+ for license, and requires min 512mb ram to run -> cpanel is almost "free" if you are with a shared cpanel host, as everyone will share the same license.) But before you pay for a vps, I think you might only need simple shared hosting. Why not google "free cpanel hosting" and just try it for practise / testing / learning. I am sure that a free host will let you learn and give you better ideas of what you need so that you can make a more informed choice when you are ready to sign up for hosting. Just at this stage, it seems that you are not entirely sure what you need, and neither was I when I started. It was only by trying free hosting, and other hosting, that I better understood what I needed.
You can get a cheap VPS droplet with SSD from Digital Ocean for about $5/month. But this is an un-managed VPS that basically just comes with ssh access. I have a total of 5 VPS servers that I use, and I pay an average of about $30/month for each. They are really not expensive. I run a DNS server, Postfix mail server, MYSQL, and Apache on mine
your own ? i liked verymuch vps . i looked a demo .it is like my pc ..why we use vps ?for what? what is the good and bad? what things i do in vps ? please tell me?
The site I linked to, is $3. But that is for very basic small VPS. You can ask questions all day, but that wont give you experience. TRY shared hosting, NOT vps. You can do google search for "free cpanel hosts" and get started.
Yes you COULD turn your old computer in to a web server for your sites. But like mentioned before a few problems with that. - Added electric costs - Much slower internet connect (site loads slower) - Some ISP's will block ports commonly used by web servers Another option you could do with that old computer is load FreeNAS on it, add a few hard drives and you have yourself a handy network storage server!
Get a shared hosting. That will be enough for a start up or medium level websites. Cost is also less.
Yeah, I wouldn't recommend going to VPS straight away just for a few websites... shared hosting is the way to go since it's way more cost effective and easier to manage for a beginner.
Because a VPS (even a managed one) requires way more time put into it to manage and take care compared to shared hosting... also shared hosting is way less expensive than a VPS, considering that cPanel alone costs $15/month on a VPS while you get it for free on a shared host. So, depending on your website(s) size, if they aren't really big, you can opt for shared hosting as opposed to VPS.