Web Hosting / Server

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Hi

You can Host from Home (If your ISP TOS allows hosting).

It can be done by using any computer that has an HTTP server installed on.

Windows XP comes with such a server it is called IIS.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-
us/iiiisin2.mspx

As far as NAS, units (like the one in your link) are concerned.

You cannot install a server application on your own on these units.

Many of these units come with an ftp server installed. FTP server can be
used for file Download/Upload, but it cannot Host a Website. There are few
of these units that might have HTTP server pre Installed as well. Search
the Internet for the term NAS, and read the specs of the NAS units that you
find, might be that you would find a unit with HTTP server thta is Windows
compatible. It must state in the specs that it includes HTTP server.

Otherwise, these two pages can serve as a primer for WinXP Hosting.

http://www.ezlan.net/myip.html

http://www.ezlan.net/serving.html

Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
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