Iis

[Matt1eD]

What happens in IIS (the XP and 2k) when over ten users try to connect?

[Moby-Dick]

I would imagine that the 11th user wont be able to connect

I've seen it happen when you try and connect more then 10 people to a printer share on an XP box

[Matt1eD]

What does it look like. Just an error screen. Cause I'm thinking of running a web server from home (very much doubt I'll even get 1 hit!) - primarily as an experiment -. But I'll be using dyndns so won't it then direct to their page (unless I pay for it to re-direct whilst my server is down)..... If you see what I mean!

[Moby-Dick]

I woudl imagine it will be a conneciton refused type thing.
do you *need* to use IIS ?

[Matt1eD]

No don't need to (don't think!), am a complete newbie to home web serving - just don't know how to go about it and was interested by the CPC article on it. Doesn't one install Apache ontop or something {personally I thought it was a linux!}. It'll only be a small site with a visitor probably once a year though!

Any suggestions with setting it up greatly encouraged! {bearing i mind I haven't ebayed a coputer to run as a server yet}.

It's just I got so fed up with free hosting that then decides to wack on ads (mutter... 100webspace).

Also I'm not sure what to do with the firewall on it.

[Moby-Dick]

have you a spare PC ?

[Matt1eD]

no. I was going to ebay one (after getting a bit of money - so I mean cheap!!!)

[Atomic]

http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php

might be of some help for you setting up Apache.

[Moby-Dick]

if you have a spare machine - why not consider using somethign like clarkconnect on it.

www.clarkconnect.org

[Matt1eD]

Ooh, will investigate further.

Cheers