PocketMatrix

My friend did this, and he doesn't pay a dime... this is the site he made for his CS clan.

I would love to do this to make a site for myself, but I don't want to pay for all that stuff I don't understand. Maybe you guys could explain all the different things to me, like domain, hosting, etc.

Any pointers would be great. Thanks!

I would suggest against this for many reasons:

1. Many ISPs prohibit this, some are more lenient, though most block port 80. You can easily get booted off, though.

2. Your upstream sucks. No, I'm not psychic, I can guarantee it does.

3. Although .tk domains are free (don't they have popups or something) anything else doesn't.

4. You're opening yourself up to a pretty substantial risk, generally computers running webservers are targetted a bit more since they're generally believed to be servers, and thus are fast and usually on some sort of non-consumer level service.

Just go get a free host, foward the tk domain there, and live with that, or shell out for an ubercheap service.

Errr... my ISP sucks, because they sent me an IP/DNS/etc thing in the mail to put in through propeties, so I doubt that they would care at all, and they only have one internet tech that's always out for lunch.

My upstream does suck. 768/256 ADSL. He's able to run it off a consumer level connection though...

How much does a .com domain usually run? If it's too much, I will stick with .tk.

Didn't think of that one. Will a consumer level firewall and anti-virus help? What about a router with built-in firewall?

Okay it looks like I will go get hosting then. Do any of these packages look decent?



Edit: nevermind, I'm getting a headache.

Sorry for the rez..
But, I actually have set up one of my own, as well. As for posing a security risk, I doubt something's going to happen. My server computer is an old 333Mhz Athlon K6-2 with 320MB's of RAM. I doubt it could support more than 5-10 people at a time using it.
Here it is, if you want to take a look:
http://mechcommander.no-ip.org/