Managing a Home-Based Apache Web Server

For a personal website, hosting it yourself is very acceptable and easy to do, assuming you have enough bandwidth. This Business Insider how-to article shows how to set up your own Web server from home using the free Apache web server -- you can be running Windows or Linux.

"Paying for web hosting isn't ideal in most situations. If you have your own website, hosting it yourself is very acceptable and easy to do, assuming your internet bandwidth permits. Most people want to run a personal site, nothing crazy, so hosting from home on low-bandwidth internet is actually a better solution in most cases.

"In this Null Byte, I'm going to show you how to set up your own web server from home using the free Apache web server. You can be running Windows or Linux, because I will be covering them both!"

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