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Before Mountain Lion, a personal web server was available under System Preferences > Sharing > Web Sharing. They removed the UI to enable it in Mountain Lion,
by tjohns 9y ago
Before Mountain Lion, a personal web server was available under System Preferences > Sharing > Web Sharing.
They removed the UI to enable it in Mountain Lion, but the functionality is still built in and can be enabled if you install Apple's MacOS Server app from the app store. Or you can just enable it from the command line.
- amatecha 9y agoheh, remember when you could actually host your own website from your home connection on port 80? Dynamic DNS services, etc... ISPs put a quick end to that, though :(
- rodgerd 9y agoI... still do? This is more about ISPs where you live than anything else. Most people don't want the hassle.
- amatecha 9y agoYeah, guess it varies, but a lot of ISPs block incoming port 80 connections. Common enough that noip.com has a "port redirection" feature, interestingly enough: http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/my-isp-blocks-port-80-what-can-i-do/ http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/my-isp-blocks-port...
- __david__ 9y agoNot really. I still host a number of sites on my home linux box.
- ungzd 9y agoNowadays you need PAAS cloud hosting with Kubernetes on at least 3 servers, monitoring SAAS, log storage SAAS, CI for js transpilers, CDN for assets, Cloudflare, SSL certificate, checklist for PWA compliance, UX guidelines, AMP, OpenGraph metadata. Because best practices!
- Waterluvian 9y agoIt was a really nice idea. I wonder how often it got used. I think it was a conceptual relic of the [Jeff Goldblum era](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQmK1CnwOUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQmK1CnwOUI) of iMacs with instant Internet and personal webpages.
- tomc1985 9y agoThe "Jeff Goldblum" era is still alive, just not in the minds of people trying to sell cloud-based alternatives
- _sdegutis 9y agoNo, personal web pages have been replaced with Facebook accounts. Nobody wants or needs a website to show off photos and videos and personal updates anymore.
- veidr 9y agoThey do if they don’t want their photos of their kids plastered with ads for fart apps and other unsavory garbage, though...
- _sdegutis 9y agoBut nobody in the target audience will visit it, because it's some random website and not a Facebook page. So what good is a website that's never visited?
- coldtea 9y agoWhen people say "alive" in casual conversation, they mean alive for larger amounts of people than statistical noise...
- tomc1985 9y agoI suppose that could be an insult, if you were actually right