right...
this has gotten a little more complicated than the original question...
firstly, if you are planning on using your own machine as the server.
you are going to need a dns record to point to your machine,
I suggest you go to www.no-ip.com to get a free name that will point to your machine...
so, once you've registered with your email address and downloaded the client so that if your IP address changes it updates on the main DNS server...
lets assume you register dewdman.no-ip.com
this address will now point to your server.
now you can access this address from anywhere in the world (assuming that you set your firewall to forward all relevant ports etc!!)
(so that's your network domain and server name sorted)...
email, is opening a whole new can of worms...
now you'll need an email server...
I don't really have any suggestions here, personally I thikn Exchange is the best, but honestly, if you had £600 to waste on an email server you wouldn't really be setting up home hosting now would you!
there are a few more options out there though...
you could perhaps have a search or maybe some other members can recomend some.
this has gotten a little more complicated than the original question...
firstly, if you are planning on using your own machine as the server.
you are going to need a dns record to point to your machine,
I suggest you go to www.no-ip.com to get a free name that will point to your machine...
so, once you've registered with your email address and downloaded the client so that if your IP address changes it updates on the main DNS server...
lets assume you register dewdman.no-ip.com
this address will now point to your server.
now you can access this address from anywhere in the world (assuming that you set your firewall to forward all relevant ports etc!!)
(so that's your network domain and server name sorted)...
email, is opening a whole new can of worms...
now you'll need an email server...
I don't really have any suggestions here, personally I thikn Exchange is the best, but honestly, if you had £600 to waste on an email server you wouldn't really be setting up home hosting now would you!
there are a few more options out there though...
you could perhaps have a search or maybe some other members can recomend some.