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M icrosoft first introduced the functionality to use a USB drive or SD card as a memory cache in Windows Vista in the form of a feature known as ReadyBoost. The feature was also inherited to Windows 7 and later versions, but with the ability to configure more than one USB drive for ReadyBoost. So, what is ReadyBoost in Windows? ReadyBoost is a feature that speeds up Windows by storing application files and data as cache in a USB drive. This disk caching is beneficial in case the system is running a slow hard drive. ReadyBoost works with USB drives, SD cards, and CF cards. However, it may not be able to deliver considerable performance in the case of newer hardware. So, if you’re stuck with an older hardware, you can speed up Windows using ReadyBoost and USB drive. How to speed up Windows 10 using ReadyBoost? As mentioned earlier, you can use a USB drive, SD card or a CF card to enhance the performance of your Windows 10 operating system. In the case of SD cards, pl...
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How to Host Your Own Server On Windows And Linux

Windows: How to Host Your Own Website Using Your PC as a WAMP Server

First, let’s try hosting a website using your personal computer with the Windows operating system. Less than one-third of all websites use Windows, meaning your hosting options tend to be a little more limited than those of Linux developers. But if ASP.NET and C are what you code in, then Windows is the way to go.

Step 1: Getting Started With WAMP

To make this super easy, we’ll use a WAMP installation program (of which there are several) called WampServer. This will cover your Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. You could also opt to install each package manually, but this process requires much more work and is error-prone.
WampServer screenshot
WampServer is one of several environments available to create Apache, MySQL, and PHP applications on Windows.
First, download the 32-bit or 64-bit WAMP-binary here, follow the on-screen instructions, and launch WampServer when it’s done. (Note: There may be a port 80 conflict with your Skype software, but there’s a fix for that.)
Upon installation, a www directory will be created automatically. You’ll likely find it here: c:\wamp\www
From that directory, you can create subdirectories (called “projects” in WampServer), and put any HTML or PHP files inside those subdirectories. If you click on the localhost link in the WampSever menu or open your internet browser with the URL http://localhost, you should be shown the main screen of WampServer.

Step 2: Creating an HTML Page and Configuring MySQL

To test our WampServer, we can put an example file called “info.php” into our www-directory. Go directly to this directory by clicking “www directory” in the WampServer menu. From there, create a new file with the sample code like <title>PHP Test</title> and save it.
Now you can browse to http://localhost/info.php to see the details of your PHP installation. You can create any HTML and PHP file structure to suit your needs.
If you click on the phpMyAdmin menu option, you can start configuring your MySQL databases (which may be needed for a CMS like WordPress). The phpMyAdmin login screen will open in a new browser window. By default, the admin username will be root, and you can leave the password field blank.
From there, you can create new MySQL databases and alter existing ones. Most software, like WordPress, will automatically set up a new database for you, though.

Step 3: Make the Site Public

By default, the Apache configuration file is set to deny any incoming HTTP connections, except in the case of someone coming from the localhost. To make your site publicly accessible, you need to change the Apache configuration file (httpd.conf). You can find and edit this file by going to the WampServer menu, clicking Apache, and selecting httpd.conf. Find these two lines of code:
And replace them with these:
Restart all WampServer services by clicking “Restart All Services” in the menu. The site should now be accessible from beyond your localhost. Confirm there isn’t a PC firewall blocking web requests. You may need to set up port-forwarding on your internet router as well.

Step 4: Using a Domain Name

To use a domain name with your WAMP installation, we’ll need to configure some files first. Let’s assume that our example.com domain has an A record in your DNS with the IP address 100.100.100.100.
First, we need to add the following line to the C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file: 100.100.100.100 example.com
Next, we need to edit httpd.conf again (accessible via the WampServer menu) to add a virtual host. Once that file is open, look for “Virtual hosts,” and uncomment the line after it, like this:
Now we need to add a file manually in “C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache-VERSION\conf\extra\” (VERSION is your Apache version). Create a file in Notepad, or your text editor of choice. Add the following code, and save the file in that Apache directory.
Click “Restart All Services” in the WampServer menu to activate these changes, and confirm that your site is accessible via its domain name. Voila!

Linux: How to Host Your Own Website on a Linux Machine

Let’s now cover how to set up Apache, MySQL, and PHP on a Linux system. LAMP stacks are far and away the most common Linux hosting configuration but don’t be afraid to play with NGINX or LiteSpeed webservers, either.

Step 1: Install Your Software Using the Terminal

To start our LAMP software install, type the following in the terminal:
During the installation process, you will be asked to enter (and re-enter) a password for the MySQL root user. Technically, it’s not necessary (as it should have been done upon installation), but just to be sure, we will restart the Apache webserver. Any time you change the global configuration of Apache, you need to execute the command below, unless you do the configuration using local .htaccess files.

Step 2: Check PHP

To confirm your PHP server works and see what PHP modules are currently available, you can place a test PHP file in the webserver root directory (/var/www/html/):
We can now visit that PHP page by browsing to http://localhost/info.php.
You should see the currently running PHP version, current configuration, and currently installed modules. Note that you can later install other PHP modules using the Ubuntu package manager, as some PHP applications might require that. To determine which extra modules are available, search within the graphical package manager, or simply use the command line:

Step 3: Check MySQL

As most content management systems, including WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, use MySQL databases, we should also confirm our installation worked and the software is fully updated. To see if your MySQL installation is working, type service mysql status into the terminal.
If you don’t see that the MySQL Community Server started, you can type sudo service mysql restart to restart the MySQL server. From here, we can use the MySQL command line client to manage databases.
For this, we need to use the admin credentials we typed earlier when MySQL was installed. Reach the login prompt by entering: $ mysql -u root -p
Often times, the CMS will automatically create the database for you, but sometimes you need to do something to the database manually. PHPMyAdmin is a friendly database management tool most web experts will recommend and can be installed with: sudo apt install phpmyadmin
Finally, configure the /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php file using the steps described here.

Step 4: Configure DNS

To use your own domain for your local web server, you’ll need to configure Apache to accept web requests for your domain. First, make sure your domain’s DNS has an A record (which points to a specific IP address) for your domain name, e.g., www.example.com. Your DNS hosting provider will have online tools to correctly set up these DNS records.
Once that is done, you should be able to see something like this using the dig tool. To request the A record for www.example.com, type:
Here, a web link for http://www.example.com would be directed to the server with IP address 100.100.100.100.

Step 5: Configure Apache

Now, we need to tell Apache to accept web requests for our name www.example.com and from what directory to serve content when we get those requests. To do that, we’ll set up a directory for our example.com domain and create an example index.html file before setting some filesystem permissions:
To see this page, the last step is to set up a Virtual Host file for Apache for our domain.
Now edit the file to look like this (the optional comments are not shown here):
Now reload Apache for the changes to take effect:
Edit your local /etc/hosts file by adding a line with your IP address and domain name. Be sure to change the “100.100.100.100” to match the IP address of your domain:
We should now be able to visit our self-hosted site by going to http://www.example.com.


source by:hostingadvice.com

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