Web server help like godaddy.com?
06. Jan, 2011 
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Question by KungFuPanda: Web server help like godaddy.com?
Ok so this will be long and ill put a summary at bottom. So I got computer class in my school and were making websites. I made one but our teacher told us we need to pay to a web server like godaddy.com so they can host it. Well I dont wanna do that I have a fast enough computer to make my own and my internet company tells me I can I got comcast. Dont ask why because my other classmates made some good websites and dont wanna pay and we all want to use my server and make a web site web and get them all connected. One of them went to go daddy. com and alredy got a lot of views so we think its a good idea. Well I looked online all of the tutorials say hot to host WEBSITE or WEBHOST which is same thing and cant find a tutorial and how to make a server like go daddy. Any good links to tutorials??? thx.
SUMMARY Me and my friends made websites dont feel like paying godaddy and free ones are crappy and I got a good computer so we want to make a web server Thx for all help and Ill give best answer about tomorow so fast and easy points
Lol buch o people are saying I should register on some cheap ones. Ya I know that comcast lets me have 2g of space and its free but I want to make my own one so I can run it and I can run a computer for 24hrs I got couple lying around that I can use.
Thx for the tuts Ill check em out 
O ya and if I make it Ill let you guys have a website for free
Well teacher didnt ask were making websites with Dreamweaver and me and my friends want to link em all together and make our own and noone wants to pay so we want to make a server
Ok some tutorials really good thx for all help
Best answer:
Answer by brady m
You’ll have to do more research to find a suitable host.
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what you’re trying to do is more involved than you probably think. godaddy is easy. but if you really want to do it yourself, try Plesk (it’s free) or another open source server platform to get started.
First of all i have to say there are some good FREE Webhosting services. 000webhost is the best one i’d ever seen.Try to get an free account.(Just google it)
There features for free account is much enough for a personal site.
OOps…Making a server??? is some what complex but better to get the idea.
This is a good tutorial
http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2007/06/05/build_your_own_server/1
So you say you want your computer to host the website. It can be done…. But you need the following:
You need to call your internet provider and ask for a “static IP”. This is the address to your cable modem. Right now, you have an address, but it changes often.
When you make a site, like http://www.enterwebsitenamehere.com, you have to register that .com name. When you register it, you are buying the rights to it, and you assign an address to that name. The address you assign to it will be the server the web site is hosted on. That is why you need a static IP address (static means it doesnt change). This can cost you.
After you get the address, you are going to have to make sure when people go to the address, the web site is what they get. Giving people your IP address to your computer can compromise your identity. Web hosts are a lot safer. There are hosts out there for 4 bucks a month.
Google “Best web hosts”. Use one of them and register a domain name.
If this is just some school project, use something like freewebs as a host. Or even google.com/sites Are you in high school? Its pretty ridiculous that a teacher would ask students to spend $60/yr to host a b.s. website.
Even at my college we used the college network “phobos” or google sites.
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