You should be just fine. Just make sure you open port 80 on your router/firewall, and port forward it to the private IP of your mac.
I actually would either get OSX server, or get Mamp. Mainly because that way you'll also have access to php, and to My SQL in case you need them. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alex Hall To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 9:56 AM Subject: Hosting a website on a Mac Mini? Hi all, I just got a domain name, to use for testing something at work with emails. I figured I may as well use it to host, well, whatever I want to. I have a Mac Mini with 8GB ram and an SSD, and I don't expect much traffic on this site at all. My questions, then: * Is this machine suited to the task, if I also want to use it for everyday things like email or Safari? It's my primary computer. * Should I use OS X Server, or would Nginx or Apache work just as well? I'm comfortable enough with both that not having a GUI for configuration doesn't bother me. * What security concerns should I know, given that this computer also holds my own files, keychain, and the like? Will server directives to restrict access be enough, or is it just a bad idea to run a public site from a personal computer? Thanks in advance for any information. I've done some web hosting before, and I know programming and servers, but I've never hosted my own site. This time, I own only the domain, no server space or anything else. I'd like to avoid paying for shared hosting if I can, since I don't expect this site to do a ton or attract many visitors. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
