Useful Knowledge that Should be Common
I'm surprised at the number of people I see asking for help hosting pictures. Some number of these people must be broadband customers - why don't they use OS X's built in Apache server capabilities and host it themselves? Simply enable Web Sharing in Network preferences, drag the picture into /Library/Webserver/Documents and host it as http://(ip address here)/picture.jpg and it's done.
Of course, there are times when this wouldn't be feasible - such as when there would probably be a Lot of traffic to the picture, making it a bandwidth killer, or if an ip address changes every ten minutes. But for forum purposes, it's really the best solution.
I think, though, that this might be just one of many bits of information that a lot of people can't take advantage of simply because they don't know about it. While osxhints provides a pretty comprehensive database of such things, and several books are also helpful, maybe some seasoned X users could post a few tips here about extremely useful but under-acknowledged capabilities of this "next-generation" OS.
Of course, there are times when this wouldn't be feasible - such as when there would probably be a Lot of traffic to the picture, making it a bandwidth killer, or if an ip address changes every ten minutes. But for forum purposes, it's really the best solution.
I think, though, that this might be just one of many bits of information that a lot of people can't take advantage of simply because they don't know about it. While osxhints provides a pretty comprehensive database of such things, and several books are also helpful, maybe some seasoned X users could post a few tips here about extremely useful but under-acknowledged capabilities of this "next-generation" OS.
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My main problem is that I am not always on the computer so the computer isn't always on, and sleeps a lot. I don't see what it matters, most ISP's will give you server space and there are free hosting places anyway.
www.hostultra.com sucks, randomly it will take you to a porn page when you try to access your site
Originally posted by ast3r3x
www.hostultra.com sucks, randomly it will take you to a porn page when you try to access your site
A friend of mine hosts his site there. I have yet to get into it, because I can't get past the redirection.