From: RobertB 

In article , "Geo."
 wrote:

> "RobertB"  wrote in message
> news:missinglink-60488F.12221308062007{at}news.barkto.com...
>
> >> Heck, if you have DSL you could host your own website.
> >
> > Nooo, thank you. Then I'd have to worry about all the security issues
> > and keep a machine running all the time. I could use my old G4 for that
> > I suppose, but I'm not sure I want to go through the trouble of learning
> > what I need to learn. Also, my ISP might gripe if there was a lot of
> > traffic, not that I'm expecting much, but you never know. I can be
> > optimistic. 
>
> It's not that hard to do, especially if the site is just 6 static pages. You

Well, probably a couple of dozen when I'm done. I'm still working. 


> setup a web server behind nat, mapping only port 80, run windows update so

Windows! Aghhh. George, this would be on OS X, which runs Apache.

> the machine is fully patched, burn the site to CD and set the CD directory
> as the website directory. Now it's almost impossible to hack and as long as

Hey, I didn't think you could do that sort of thing. Wouldn't that be dog slow?

> You could probably use an old PII for a webserver.

G4 iMac. 

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