Hosting Your Own Website

It's great to have a website, but most hosting services are outrageously expensive. If you are reading this on the internet, then you can easily host your own website for free! Here's how to do it.

Thanks to sparks4289 for clarifications.

EDIT: If any of you care to see my website, it is at http://173.53.67.217/index.html. It is not quite done yet! By the way, the login scripts on the page are made of the PHP and MySQL from Wampserver, just to show it works. 

Step 1 2. Preparations

To host your own website, you are going to need to do a few things. 

PICTURE 1
Log into your routers web page (this is usually http://198.168.1.1)

PICTURE 2
Find both your real IP(What everyone else uses) and your local IP(only you use this one). Be sure to write both of these numbers down.

Comments

[sparks4289]

your 'private' IP address as you call it is really just your 'local' IP address. The IP your router assigns to your computer for it to function on the network. The 'public' IP address is going to be your real IP and what your ISP provides to you, which depending on your type of service can fluctuate and change regularly. Some ISP's even require you to pay an extra fee to have a fixed, or static IP. Your local IP address can also change, depending on the settings on your router.

[charlie.nourse]

Thanks for the clarification! I'll edit this.

[xhacks]

I've been hosting my site for a while now

http://modbotix.com

and a friends site which is under construction rite now

http://smokenpictures.net

also if ur isp blocks port 80 outgoing then u can forward any port from the WAN side to ur Local side (ie. port 1337 to port 80)

[schumi23]

It asks me fir a username/password when I try to go to modmotix
(And smoken just doesnt load)

[xhacks]

modbotix.com should be up now

[xhacks]

srry about all this as my computer crashed and i replaced it but now smokenpictures is no longer up and modbotix is now hosted by a service however now i have to reconstruct it and i am redesigning it for a diferent purpose

[______]

Your website must not work i tried going to it but it said a fire wall is blocking it

[charlie.nourse]

Sorry, Verizon blocked my ports.

[RedMeanie]

Thanks! I have 3 full size dell servers ready for a video server type site I want to set up so I can monitor a few DVR systems I have at different locations. I have software for setting up the DVR monitoring and enough drive space with a whole bunch of drives so I can upload video if I need to. Its just hard to make that leap into doing it! LOL it seems hard when you think about it, but your Instructable has explained allot of the stuff I was afraid of. Thanks!

[charlie.nourse]

Thanks! I'm glad to see that someone got as much use out of this as I did.

[Ranie-K]

Any idea on how to get it through my router's firewall? I've made perfectly fine websites that will only be visible within my own apartment but my D-link DL-624+ will prevent anyone outside reading it..

[charlie.nourse]

Make sure that forwarding on port 80 is unblocked. That's what got me.