How I Started Something from Nothing.

As referred in my previous post about the link about the 12monkeys. All I needed was an active internet connection. I never bought a domain name nor a mail server or any thing apart from the INTERNET CONNECTION (No FireWall, your system must be accessible from other location) which I presume every reader reading this would be having.

Well here is how I did it. Firstly test the installations of Apache2 , php5 and see that they are working just fine. Drupal 6 and MySql are other two things that are needed. With Ubuntu's software channels every thing is just so easy that you need not stress yourself that much.

Now that you have a server running up locally its time you give an identity to your system on the world wide web, yes, the Domain Name. Most of you might have already heard that it costs some thing for purchasing a domain name. Well guess what ? There are domain names which are also free of cost. One that I personally use is from dyndns.com services.

Next step is to bind the IP address if it is changing dynamically. Its no big deal there are tools which report your IP address to the name servers when ever there is an IP change or periodically. inadyn is one such tool, I am sure you can find others in the site dyndns.com.

Have fun hosting your site :)