Hi Bloomjoin,

Comcast and verizon do have their own web hosting plans but you need to host your websites with them on their shared server. You have no control over the server. This option is worse than hosting with any dedicated hosting companies because it costs higher.

But if you want to host a server at home and run your website with that server, then no matter what ISP you use, so long as it’s a high-speed Internet connection, you’ll be able to hook your server onto the world wide web. It’s just that you need to do some very tedious settings on your part and get everything to work.

Basically, these are what you need:

- a high-speed Internet connection (don’t use dial-up… can kill you)
- get a DNS hostname for your home Internet connection
- get a static IP address
- configure your router on port 80
- configure firewall
- install apache server program

These are just some main things you need to do. It actually involves lots of details and the whole process of setting-up and testing plus security issues could take up much of your time.

If you just want to learn how web hosting works, then that’s perfectly fine. But if you want to build an online business, then I would really suggest you to outsource.

Go Daddy is not an ideal web hosting company to go with. It’s good with domain hosting only. You might like to see if Host Gator’s dedicated hosting suits you better which I’m hosting with them now and I find them really reliable and good.

=> http://tinyurl.com/dedicated-hosting

But take note though, dedicated hosting could be expensive. You can click on other options in that page to tour around the site to find the cheapest deal.

Hope that helps.

Soon Chai