Is hosting website from home is expensive and painful? I want to host a website. can anyone please tell me what exactly i need and how much ruffly it costs me.

Thanks for ur help

I looked at the other answers to this question but I am not certain as to whether you are asking: how to host a website of my own, or to actually host it from your home.

If you are talking about hosting a website, you can just find any hosting provider, and depending on what you expect to use, choose a plan. For a small website, you can use shared hosting which you can find from sites such as http://www.dreamhost.com which offer them at like 10 dollars a month. A domain, which is the name of your site will also cost you around 10 dollars a year.

However, IF YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT hosting your site from your house, that would be another answer. To host your website from your house, you would need to setup your own 'webserver'. You can learn about how to do this from a site such as http://www.dslwebserver.com/ which offer step by step assistance. However, I must note that unless you have a good internet connection, and a space computer you are not using somewhere, and some experience with working with computers, I strongly recommend not hosting your own website from home.

Hope this helps.