Setting Up A Web Server

Its quite easy, since long time i've been thinking about how to host my site at the lowest possible cost (free ofcourse)...well i did host my site on difference free webhosts but all of them had some disadvantage, some didn't had much bandwidth, some didn't had the adons i required, and most of them placed their ads on my site ruining my web layout :(...so finally i decided to host my site on my own computer...
to do so just follow below and remember its all done free of cost
Register a FREE domain at dyndns.com
Download their free client application and install it in your startup so that if your ip address changes it gets updated automatically
Then register another FREE domain at http://www.co.cc/
Then signin to you co.cc account and redirect it to your dyndns domain name
Thats all for the the domain setup...now for the computer setup...
Definitely to run your website you need to have webserver installed...
For Windows IIS is there (which i'm using)
For Linux Apache is there
well there are many other webservers like miniwebserver, tinyweb, wwwserver etc
Just check the webservers site to see which suits you, but my recommendation would be go with the operating systems own server...
well after deciding and installing the webserver just copy and paste you website files into the webservers recommended folder...and walla...your sites up...
now who ever will login to your site will be visiting the site placed at your pc... (remember your computer needs to be 24 hours on in order to make your site available to visiters)

after completing this whole process the path which your users will follow to access your site would be something like...

CO.CC Domain >>> DYNDNS Domain >>> Your IP Address >>> Site Files at Your PC
for example
http://jamshiddastur.co.cc/ >>> http://jamshid.is-a-geek.co.uk/ >>> 58.xxx.xxx.xxx >>> index.htm

Best of Luck in setting your own server

Why Tech Technology?

I'm a fan of technology, for the time being am testing things so would post details later :)
for the time being you may visit http://jamshiddastur.co.cc to know more about me...