Web Hosting

Create Your Own Web Hosting Server: Software and Resources

If you want your web site or your personal blog be available to other people, you have either to place your website to a public server or use your PC as a web server. Here’s a list of resources you can use to set up your own servers.

MySQL database is the world’s most popular database. It won its popularity for high reliability, fast performance, and ease of usage. MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Windows, Linux, OS/X, AIX, HP-UX, Netware.

Apache HTTP Server is a robust, powerful, and freely-distributed source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. Apache became the most popular web server on the Internet in 1996 and holds this position till nowadays.

PHP is a widely-used scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
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Web Hosting	Disk space,Gb	Bandwidth, GB/Month	Ads	Upload	Scripts	Database	Inactivity, Days
Zend Url	500	15	No ads	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, ASP, SSI, Perl	PostgreSQL, MySQL
LeadHoster	250	6	No ads	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, ASP, SSI, Perl	MySQL
AwardSpace	200	5	No ads	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage, Perl	MySQL
FreeHostia	250	5	No ads	FTP, Browser	CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage, Perl	MySQL
AgiltyHoster	200	5	No ads	FTP, Browser	PHP MySQL		90
Bravenet	50	1.5	Banner	FTP, Browser
ProHosting	100	1.2	Banner, Popup	FTP, Browser			90
TopCities	150	Unlimited	Banner	FTP, Browser
250Free	250	0.25	Banners, Popups	FTP, Browser, SiteCopy