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Originally posted by losthellhound
Also, keep in mind that you're in a College, and even though you can run servers, you might have a bandwidth limitation, and some game servers can eat bandwidth if they get popular (like say, if you posted the IP here *grin*)
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Yeah, that's why I haven't commented yet. I honestly don't see how they can allow you to start a server. Game server, fine, but certainly not a website! You can own a website at college, but I highly, highly doubt they'd let you host it there for free. What if it gets popular or Fark'ed one day? 100,000 unexpected downloads or visits could hurt even a University's bandwidth bill, especially if multiple people do it.
If you still want to do it, you'll have to get a URL first. That's simple...simply sign up for one. It's not that expensive, surprisingly. Next, you'll need a program to actually host the website as a server on your PC. I'm not experienced with this at all, but I hear a program called Apache works very well.
If you want to do Internet games, it's as simple as hosting a dedicated server on your computer. You wouldn't be able to play with that dedicated server. You might be able to run a seperate copy of the game while hosting the dedicated server, but I imagine even your PC would have a hard time doing that.
If you honestly want to set up a dedicated server for college, I'd buy a cheapo 500 MHz system and run it off of that. I currently have a Desert Combat server going along side this PC. The server is 400 MHz with 256 MB of PC100 RAM.
It gets the job done very well. Good luck!
-Lasereth