Web Hosting WINDOWS XP

[Alphathree33]

Is it possible? How do I do it?

I used to use Personal Web Server under Windows ME, but that doesn't seem to be working for me under windows XP home edition.

Surely microsoft has a way for home users to host small websites on XP machines, no?

 

[bozo1]

Home edition lacks IIS or Personal Web Server. XP Pro has it. You'll need to find a 3rd party product to do what you want. Regardless, you will be limited to 10 incoming connections at a time.

 

[vortix]

<< Regardless, you will be limited to 10 incoming connections at a time. >>

Are you sure that IIS limits you to 10 connections?? AFAIK only PWS does this - IIS is what's used to host many large web sites with waaaay more than 10 simultaneous users. You could always get Apache for Windows - I believe the latest release is actually recommended by Apache for running on Windows, unlike the previous version. I have no idea how performance is, though, as I haven't used Apache on Windows myself.

Good luck

 

[TheOmegaCode]

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<< Regardless, you will be limited to 10 incoming connections at a time. >>

Are you sure that IIS limits you to 10 connections?? AFAIK only PWS does this - IIS is what's used to host many large web sites with waaaay more than 10 simultaneous users. You could always get Apache for Windows - I believe the latest release is actually recommended by Apache for running on Windows, unlike the previous version. I have no idea how performance is, though, as I haven't used Apache on Windows myself.

Good luck >>


I've ran apache on several different flavors of OS's... Apache works wonders for windows, 2.0.35 is nice... I will take apache over IIS any day for web hosting. Although, I am lazy, and use IIS for ftp...

 

[n0cmonkey]

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<< Regardless, you will be limited to 10 incoming connections at a time. >>

Are you sure that IIS limits you to 10 connections?? AFAIK only PWS does this - IIS is what's used to host many large web sites with waaaay more than 10 simultaneous users. You could always get Apache for Windows - I believe the latest release is actually recommended by Apache for running on Windows, unlike the previous version. I have no idea how performance is, though, as I haven't used Apache on Windows myself.

Good luck >>



Workstation OSes from Microsoft are limited to 10 connections. From what people say Apache gets around this, but I dont have any experience to speak from. The companies that get "waaaay more than 10 simultaneous users" would be using servers versions of the OSes.

 

[singh]

<< Workstation OSes from Microsoft are limited to 10 connections. From what people say Apache gets around this, but I dont have any experience to speak from. The companies that get "waaaay more than 10 simultaneous users" would be using servers versions of the OSes. >>



A while ago, I asked a question about 10 connection on a Windows web-site, and it was their response that indeed, the OS limits the maximum unique IP addresses connected to ten. It may actually be a violation of the EULA to "bypass" this limit. I'm not totally sure, but if true, I find it rather distasteful:|

 

[Derango]

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<< Workstation OSes from Microsoft are limited to 10 connections. From what people say Apache gets around this, but I dont have any experience to speak from. The companies that get "waaaay more than 10 simultaneous users" would be using servers versions of the OSes. >>



A while ago, I asked a question about 10 connection on a Windows web-site, and it was their response that indeed, the OS limits the maximum unique IP addresses connected to ten. It may actually be a violation of the EULA to "bypass" this limit. I'm not totally sure, but if true, I find it rather distasteful:| >>



Well, technicly, you didn't pay (I'm assuming you did actualy pay for windows here....bare with me ) for a server OS, you paid for a desktop workstation OS. You can always use other server programs to get around that restriction. And it is a violation of the EULA to get around it using a registry hack to unlock more than 10 connections in IIS...apache isn't microsoft code though, so they can't govern it.

 

[n0cmonkey]

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<< Workstation OSes from Microsoft are limited to 10 connections. From what people say Apache gets around this, but I dont have any experience to speak from. The companies that get "waaaay more than 10 simultaneous users" would be using servers versions of the OSes. >>



A while ago, I asked a question about 10 connection on a Windows web-site, and it was their response that indeed, the OS limits the maximum unique IP addresses connected to ten. It may actually be a violation of the EULA to "bypass" this limit. I'm not totally sure, but if true, I find it rather distasteful:| >>



Well, technicly, you didn't pay (I'm assuming you did actualy pay for windows here....bare with me ) for a server OS, you paid for a desktop workstation OS. You can always use other server programs to get around that restriction. And it is a violation of the EULA to get around it using a registry hack to unlock more than 10 connections in IIS...apache isn't microsoft code though, so they can't govern it. >>



Not yet, but they are working on it.

 

[Derango]

Somehow I am not surprised.

 

[narzy]

try apache