Hosting a Website at Home.

Hosting a Website at Home.

I have been using free websites available on the site including this BLOGSPOT to experiment with hosting Websites. As I am connected to Web by DSL router, it is possible now.

There a many important information to handle this. First thing is that your external IP will vary with every disconnection of the Router from the ISP. As there is no Name Registeration, you must be dealing with IP addresses only. You can get a Name on trail basis by registering with NO-IP.COM, if you are inclined to so or register a name!!!

Then you must make sure, the Port you are using is not blocked by the either your router or ISP. You can use a Port scanner to check this. You can do this after going to yougetsignal.com.

After this you must configure Port forwarding in the Router. By default it is disabled to protect the NAT (Internal network).

This can be done by reading the Manual of the Router. In my D-Link Router, it is done in the Advanced tab, Virtual Server and adding Webserver to the applied rules for my NAT IP.

When this is done, you can goto another computer on the Internet and enter http:\\IPADDRESS:80 (Your external IP of the Router) to get your Webpage.

I forgot to mention one important thing. You must have IIS installed on your computer and WEBSITE is published on its Website ( normally on inetpub\wwwroot).
I used Frontpage for this experiment.


Lot of information about his is available on portforwarding.com