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if i had windows server 2003, could i set up my website and forums on that computer? how would i make that computer a server? is it even possible 
lol. lemme know.
Pops
If i had windows server 2003....
You can do that with Windows XP Professional too. As long as you have direct access to the Internet, you can setup a server.
You can do that with Windows XP Professional too. As long as you have direct access to the Internet, you can setup a server.
xp professional is limited in the number of connections is can accept at once. to truly run a server you need a server OS or need linux 
ahhh! so server 2003 on a computer connected to my dsl will work? will it be like a file host though, like a place where i can upload webpages too when i get my domain name?
ahhh! so server 2003 on a computer connected to my dsl will work? will it be like a file host though, like a place where i can upload webpages too when i get my domain name?
One of the main things to consider is:
Does your DSL block incoming port 80 (HTTP) connections?
But essentially the answer is yes.. Windows 2003 when setup as a webserver it will simply expose a folder (C:inetpubwwwroot) as a website at your IP.. so if you went to http://yourip you would get your website (whatever is in your inetpub folder)..
There are way to get a free 'domain name' for example at dyndns.com you can have a free subdomain transfer requests to your IP.
As Sid said, you can do this with XP Pro.
You can also do it with XP Home, if you install Apache, Tomcat, or whatever other webserver you want.
As for XP being "limited" in the number of connections, I really don't think that 20,000 connections is a limit pops is likely to reach, do you? He's not exactly likely to be running anything with more than about 1 user, is he?
Just a note: Running a server on XP Home is a violation of the EULA (even if it's Apache or some other free server).
As Sid said, you can do this with XP Pro.You can also do it with XP Home, if you install Apache, Tomcat, or whatever other webserver you want.
As for XP being "limited" in the number of connections, I really don't think that 20,000 connections is a limit pops is likely to reach, do you? He's not exactly likely to be running anything with more than about 1 user, is he?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;262635
When I mentioned XP Pro, I assumed we were discussing using IIS. IIS under any non-server OS is limited to about 10 connections at once.
With the default config a few fast clicks can use up that 10 connections in a heartbeat.
Using Apache is a good work around, I suppose, but then again you can install that on practically anything (XP Home etc).