Your website using your own home PC, hosting from your PC will give you little bit experience of how hosting services work.
You can try it for small website or personal work.To run your PC as server there are lot of software but top most popular is WAMP server and XAMP server. Here I'm using WAMP server.
So , let's start our hosting:
Here I'm using WAMP server, you can download latest version from >>>>>>>HERE<<<<<<<
and install it, after then add the security exception for Apache in Windows Firewall.
Now after installation:
1. Go to your browser and type localhost: just only to make sure that you properly installed and configured WAMP. (If localhost opens WAMP homepage in your browser it mean you are ready to rock with your PC).
2. Now click on WAMP icon placed in taskbar like this and then click on www directory.3. Copy your website content and pages in www directory. Example: I made a webpage and copied it in www directory.
4. Now go back to your browser and type localhost/mywebsite (replace mywebsite with your website page) in URL bar, you'll see your website open.
Congrats!!! your website is up and running.
N.B: But this only works on LAN.
If you want to host it on WAN then you need a static IP (i.e. A static IP address is a number {in the form of a dotted quad} that is assigned to a computer by an internet service provider (ISP) to be its permanent address on the internet).
Use your IP in URL bar instead of localhost then it will work on WAN means you can access your website anywhere in the world.
Good luck!! Leave us a comment in the comment box below in case of any question.
