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If you have a computer at home and a job you can pay the electrical bill to keep the computer on 24/7 and turn it into a web server. Why pay over 20$ per month for hosting services when you can pay a fraction of that in electricity to keep your computer on. If your on a Windows machine just download one of various WAMP packages, or if your on Linux you can search this blog for the apt commands to setup a LAMP server.

I wish I could get paid to setup web servers, because that is obviously what the corporate web hosts do. They create these dynamic php and javascript driven websites that turn a internet GUI into server configuration commands. When you pay 20$ per month you are paying for the translation of website mouse clicks into server configuration commands. Its definitely a good service, and it makes it easy but I have always been a fan of cutting out the middle man. You can cut out the middle man; on Windows its a simple as installing WAMP, which is nothing different than a typical application installation. Linux is a little different, but I like it because its free and much more stable IMHO.