The server does not have to be big; five Megabytes would suffice.

You'll be lucky; I don't think I've seen one doing something like that for quite a while.

I'm sure there are people here that would host you. I'm considering it, but my new ubuntu install seems to be slow. The desktop itself is wonderful...But the services for it aren't that great. My website used to load in less then a second (see http://1veedo.homelinux.com/time)...technically it still does, but it "waits for a reply" for a very long time. And I know it's not DynDNS because visiting my IP takes just as long, and even my *internal* IP takes the same amount of time to start sending data as the external address I think it's because ubuntu is parinoid for security. FC3 was just as secure, though.

 

Well like I said, a lot of *nix users are very generous. Pretty much the only way to get that kind of hosting is by

a) Hosting yourself

b) Asking a friend who runs a server

 

Hosting isn't really that expensive anyway. There are server seach engines you can use. Tell it what you want, ie 5gigs, and just compare the results.

 

Before I ran Linux I used this site:

http://www.findmyhosting.com/

I've thought about creating a server for myself, but I don't know how. I've heard of things called apache and so forth, but I don't know how to use such things.

 

I know how linux works but I wouldn't know which distro to use.

Plus, if I were to partition my hard drive I would have to obtain a complete backup of my HDD as it is now. That would take some time. Unless I use partitionmagic I think it's called.

 

What is the the best distro to use?

What the the most secure server with the least programming (i'm a noob to servers and linux..)

Of course, you have to remember that you need decent speed depending on what you're doing. DSL is generally the least you can get by with. It's not so much downstream, though. Make sure you're getting at least 128 up.

 

The best discro would depend on what you thought was the coolest or most efficient. As a generally rule, Linux is secure, so you don't have to worry about that. I would recommend disabling SELinux.

 

Like I said above, though, my recent Ubuntu install seems to take a while to start sending data. FC3 was fast, and it makes sense because it's using red hat. Red hat itself is pay software, now. But you really dont need it. And if you did, there are free versions as well. Linux is open source; it's impossible to charge for it. There is already a distro that just recompiles red hat and calls it seomthing else.

 

http://www.linux.org/

Search engien type thing

 

http://distrocenter.linux.com/

<< I recommend for deciding between distros

 

http://www.linuxiso.org/

Another site offering a discription and download

 

And remember, Linux isnt the only distro that will host. FreeBSD and other unix bassed systems will. Windows can as well. You can pay a bunch of money to get the very unsecure windows server. And you can get other apps like apache that are still unsecure on windows, share overhead, and preform poorly.

Apache isn't that bad under Windows for fairly low traffic servers.

I would also recommend http://www.distrowatch.com for looking at differnt distrobutions.

I host my own site off DynDNS. But the comp doesn't have internet on it at this point in time. I would be happy to host something for you.

See Evangelante, waht did I tell you? Most of the time all you need to do is ask

The server does not have to be big; five Megabytes would suffice.

You might be able to find something from ClickHereFree.com.

 

Also try Webhosts4Free.com (includes reviews).

 

And another webhost directory Free-Webhosts.com.

 

If you attend a university, often your university will be happy to host your websites for free and without ads.

That reminds me - your ISP might also provide some kind of hosting option, also.

Most do. Charter's is at webpages.charter.net/whoever

 

In My Memory, I have actually tried all those hosts before. The second two are add ware and have pop-ups. I was actually unaware of this until I noticed pop-ups on IE at school...then saw the cookies. Not sure about the first. If you want free web hosting don't click in the first few results from google. They make their money in other areas. There are free web hosts otu there, just hard to find.