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jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, I asked recently about web hosting services as my ISP doesn't provide me > with any space but I have been considering recently hosting the site on my > desktop PC. I can do this, right? As far as I know at the moment it seems > possible. I could set the computer up to allow other users to connect. This > I have a slight grasp of. What I can't get my head around though is how do I > get a domain name to point to the IP address of my PC? > This IS possible right? I bought my current PC froma gamer. It's some kind > of stupidly fast 'dual core' and it has LIGHTS ON THE RAM!...So it is fast > anyway and I have a fair bit of spaire storadge in all of my old harddrives. > Would you reccoment this over buying a domain and webspace and is it fairly > easy? > Cheers for any thoughts! > Jon. > The how is easy, you rent DNS, and set it to point at your IP address. If that changes, then either you change DNS to match, or you cleverly used a dynamic DNS service to do it automatically. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html