Hosting at home (help)

[givingtnt]

Hello !

so, im in a odd situation, where owning and hosting a website at home, is cheaper and actually better than on the cloud.
sounds a bit odd, its not typial. but its my case.

 

thing is. im not sure how.

I can get a machine for pretty cheap, but im not too sure how to set it up.

I want to host multiple websites (some are single page jokes tbh, but 1-2 will be quite bigger, as in, a portfolio)
I need PHP & MySQL support.
I just don't know how to set that up.

Thanks !

[Ryois]

If you're a student get an Imagine account https://imagine.microsoft.com and download Windows Server. Get IIS amd configure it. That's what I did. It has support for MySQL, PHP, ASP.NET, etc. 

[givingtnt]

Just now, Ryois said:

If you're a student get an Imagine account https://imagine.microsoft.com and download Windows Server. Get IIS amd configure it. That's what I did. It has support for MySQL, PHP, ASP.NET, etc. 

nice
thanks

[Guest]

Your ISP support it?

[givingtnt]

Just now, Windspeed36 said:

Your ISP support it?

what do you mean ?

I get unlimited up and down, 50mb/s
and they don't mind when I max out the bandwidth for hours on end.
its bell fiber

[Guest]

Just now, givingtnt said:

what do you mean ?

I get unlimited up and down, 50mb/s
and they don't mind when I max out the bandwidth for hours on end.
its bell fiber

The bandwidth isn't the issue, some ISP's put restrictions on common web ports (80,443,25,8080,587) to prevent people running business services off consumer connections.

[givingtnt]

Just now, Windspeed36 said:

The bandwidth isn't the issue, some ISP's put restrictions on common web ports (80,443,25,8080,587) to prevent people running business services off consumer connections.

ooh no we don'T have any of those

 

iv had web pages run on 8080 from our qnap nas without issues 

[Ryois]

2 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

ooh no we don'T have any of those

 

iv had web pages run on 8080 from our qnap nas without issues

 

3 minutes ago, Windspeed36 said:

The bandwidth isn't the issue, some ISP's put restrictions on common web ports (80,443,25,8080,587) to prevent people running business services off consumer connections.

https://www3.bellmts.ca/mts/support/internet/security/blocked+or+restricted+ports

As long as youre using 443 youre ok.

[givingtnt]

1 minute ago, Ryois said:

 

https://www3.bellmts.ca/mts/support/internet/security/blocked+or+restricted+ports

huh
but 8080 is fine
also, can't I just assign another port ?

how else would I have been able to run servers in the past.

[Ryois]

Just now, givingtnt said:

huh
but 8080 is fine
also, can't I just assign another port ?

Yeah. 443 youll just need a SSL certificate. I suggest LetsEncrypt or Cloudflare. I use Cloudflare.

[givingtnt]

11 minutes ago, Ryois said:

Yeah. 443 youll just need a SSL certificate. I suggest LetsEncrypt or Cloudflare. I use Cloudflare.

I signed up on cloudfare
getting my things together.

thanks guys

[LienusLateTips]

46 minutes ago, Ryois said:

 

https://www3.bellmts.ca/mts/support/internet/security/blocked+or+restricted+ports

As long as youre using 443 youre ok.

That's BELLMTS, not Bell.

[Ryois]

6 minutes ago, JDE said:

That's BELLMTS, not Bell.

Oh... Eh still use 443 though..

[givingtnt]

10 hours ago, Ryois said:

Oh... Eh still use 443 though..

ok uh.
so here's an issue.

I connected my website to cloudfare, (currently im using a hosting service for free)
and I have subdomains. but like. my subdomains don't work anymore.
here's the adresses : 
 

Spoiler

http://moleculedesign.ca (currently a ripped page from ltt jsut for random html to put in)
http://stargen.moleculedesign.ca (a webpage made from a svg file) <-- inaccesible
http://uoltt.moleculedesign.ca (this website, but not in bootstrap) https://beta.uoltt.org/)  <-- inaccesible

how do I fix this ?
also, how do I get subdomains on home hosting ?
do I just put the folder in ?