Hosting Your Own Websites/Databases

[jamesfreddie]

I wanted to know what you need to host your own website from home.

I want to run some wordpress sites so will need the ability to host SQL databases.

I assume i could run some old/low end hardware to do this?

What O/S should i run?

How would i set it up? Is there a good guide?

How would i access the control panel?

Will my home IP address be public?

Will i be able to run a website with little traffic on a 3mb upload? I should be on 6mb upload in march/april.

All help appreciated.

 

[jamesfreddie]

Thanks for all the replys.

I was only really trying this to see if i could do it.

If i don't every try it, I will never be able to do it.

So i should install Windows Server 2008 then MySQL and thats all the software i would need on the server side of it?