FoxAxe

I use SurfShark for the very good price/perfromance, and have been very happy with it.
 

So you say, but it's not long until I'm shitposting from the @FoxAxe account

Just as a friendly advice. I host my own webserver and while setting it up i found cloudflare has a free plan. Could be worth checking out as it will give atleast some protection.

Yes, you can host a website from home, but there are a few gotchas  and fineprint.
 
The minimum stuff you need is a domain name - you can buy a .com or .net or .org domain for around 10-15$ a year, from various registrars (I use and recommend Namecheap.com). There are cheaper domains like .info or others, some cost very little for the first year, then regular price after the first year, or they're cheap every year.
 
You don't HAVE TO buy a domain, you can also use free domain services, like for example afraid.org  which allows you create and use  yourname.afraid.org which could be enough for a personal blog, or something like that.
 
Once you have the domain name, you just point it to your IP address. 
Your router or modem receives an IP address from the ISP and this is where it's important to know if you have a fixed IP address (which would be ideal) or if you have a dynamic IP address (is your IP address changing every time you restart the modem/router? Does it change periodically?)  
Every time your IP address changes, your website becomes unreachable until you update the DNS settings to point your domain name to the new IP address - the update is simple but propagation can take from 5-10 minutes to a whole day for some people, various DNS servers around the world cache IP addresses for various periods of time, so they don't instantly know you changed the IP address.
 
After this, you have to check the terms of your subscription, some ISPs don't allow hosting at home for commercial purposes (like you creating a VPN server at home and letting people share your internet connection, or you having a commercial website at home).  A personal blog, a fan site, something that only makes a few dollars from ads on the pages may not be considered commercial by them.
Few block port 80 by default (the default for websites) but you could configure your website to use encryption 24/7 in which case all traffic would work on port 443, which fewer ISPs would block completely.
 
Another problem you will face is that most likely you will not be able to send or receive mails with your IP address. The IP address you get from your ISP is typically from a group of IP addresses that your ISP voluntarily submits to various spam filtering organizations and they're put in a category that pretty much says "this is coming from a residential/home user IP address, reject the message as there's a high chance it's infected computer" so if you set up an email server on your home connection, all the emails you sent will automatically be classified as spam.
The workaround that would be to either contact your ISP to give you a business IP address (unlikely, they'd probably tell you to upgrade to a business account that's 2-3x or even 10x more expensive per month) or you could use a service like sendgrid.com or sendinblue.com  or other such services.
These would not be good to receive emails, but they can be used to send emails to people - for example let's say you want to set up a forum and you can't disable "send email with password reset information" or "send email to confirm user is genuine during account creation" or maybe you want to send an email once person's order is complete,  so for really low volume of emails you could even keep it free, or as low as 5-10$ a month for going over the free threshold.
 
That WAMPP thing is basically a package that has Apache web server, PHP and MySQL and I think an email server ... you can install Apache separately from Apachelounge.com (they make Windows builds for Apache) , PHP from the official website and for database you can use MariaDB, an 100% compatible with MySQL open source database (basically original developers of MySQL sold it to Oracle and then continued working on what was MySQL but all improvements are released as MariaDB)
If you follow the instructions you can set up a simple website in minutes.
 

If you have an idea for a business, you may want to get a DBA or LLC. As well as a Trademark once you get a logo and name. Look into registering those with your state. Legalzoom can help you but it's a little expensive. That will help you protect your brand.
 
I say, use the server to build your website. Keep it offline until you're ready. Then once you are, back up your Wordpress database (assuming you build your site with that) and buy a hosting plan from an actual provider such as BlueHost or HostGator.
 
They will make sure your site is up 24/7 and will help you make sure everything is peachy once you get up and running.

Totally possible.
For windows, there's a program called XAMPP that sets out the framework for a simple website pretty easily. There's one for linux as well called LAMPP. Then I would recommend you install something like Wordpress or other web development software to make the whole thing a breeze. Then you don't have to worry about HTML or CSS.
 
Domain name should cost you somewhere between $5 to $25 depending on the domain name and the domain distributor.
 
Edit: to follow up on @OJTheAviator , some ISP's block port 80. Which is the default port for HTTP. If they do, you can run your site on a different port but you will need to know that you have to tack a ":[PORT_NUM]" at the end of the URL.
For example, instead of "http://thisismysite.com" you would have to do "http://thisismysite.com:500"

I'm not worried about processing power for what you're doing. I think a RPi could run your site pretty easily. That is, if you're just running something basic with very few plugins and no crazy images on the homepage. Which, since it's for personal use, I doub't you will be using.

ISPs probably won't outright shut you down as long as the traffic is reasonable. "Server" is a pretty broad term and literally any device that's in your network listening for a remote connection request is a server.

You might check that your ISP won't shut you down for running a server off a residential connection. I know Verizon officially says you can't, but I've set up web servers and connected remotely (although it's just been myself connecting).

It will work, but you might notice your battery drain even while plugged in under extended load.

What you want for a charger is to have the same voltage. If it were a power supply, you would need a higher or equal current, but the lower power charger should just charge slowly

The 1080ti is significantly more powerful than the 1080, i'd go AMD on this one.

Intel+Nvidia solution is better in laptops

The only thing I can say is that WH-1000xm2 are amazing with the sound canceling and audio. I´ve been having these for about 10 months now and they´re amazing. 

do you mean like stores i can use amazon.de verkkokauppa.fi cdon.fi gigantti.fi
 

It was and they are back and running now 

Volta wont come in early 2018. Nvidia has delayed it. Official reason is "lack of reasons to not do so", my guess is "bad yields (more than wanted amount of products fail the QC stage)"
 
1080ti itself is good enough for 4K 60Hz at high settings now, so 5 years later I still expect it to do 1440p 60Hz at high settings.

but when volta releases.. isn't it better to wait until the next one comes that's even more powerful?

waiting for new hardware releases, unless it's a fairly short time until release, becomes an evil circle.. there will always be something newer and better coming out if you wait..

i say buy it now and enjoy yourself.. you can always sell the 1080ti and buy volta after release if you still want..

They wont. AMD promised to use these chipsets up till 2020.
 
It's not necessary to change either. Desktop broadwell processors (i7-5775C and i5-5675C are 14nm chips on Z9x chipset)

Yoy can pretty much ignore that, the relevant info is this

Yah. Though Ryzen doesn't like high speeds on more than 2 sticks, so 2x8GB or 16GB is the best bet. 

That's what I use by the way, for when I need to rip/burn blu-rays etc.

If it's only for short periods, I would look into a
 
nevermind.. ninja'd

You can get an external USB enclosure for 5.25" DVD drives or something

yay i got just that 16gb of 3000mhz ram
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