I was talking to one of my friends on Skype yesterday called Dylan also known as teeangle and he wanted to make the most out of his old power mac so he found this awesome tutorial on how to host your website of a mac! This will only work on a mac with a G4 Processor, as far as I know…
Mac OS X is a Unix-like, open source operating system developed by Appld and built on FreeBSD. This means that Mac users have access to free built-in server applications, like the Apache web server. With Apache and the DynDNS service, you can turn your Mac into a powerful web server. Anyone will be able to access the website stored on your Mac!
The best part is that you can host a website on your Mac for free. There are no hosting fees to pay, and your website will be available any time your Mac is turned on and connected to the Internet. But it is not recommended for a website with a lot of traffic!
What You Need:
Mac OS 10.3 or later
Dynamic DNS Account (Free, DynDNS)
DynDNS Updater for Mac (Free, Download.com)
Simply follow this amazing tutorial by macinstruct.com by Clicking Here
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Tags: free website, mac g4 host your site for free, turn your mac g4 into web server
November 25, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Wow thanks for this im totally going to try this! Awesome!!!!!
November 25, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Woo! Great Tutorial 5*
November 26, 2008 at 1:33 am
I can’t see this working for anything else but very small text based sites. In the US upload speeds are very slow (I have consistent 500 KB down but only 60 KB up) and probably wouldn’t be practical to hosting modern (graphics and media rich) websites from. The G4 would probably be better as a local media server.