how can i turn my shared server into a dedicated server? [closed]

Question

i have a website that is hosted in a shared server. i want to use my home computer to make my website using a dedicated server couz i want to offer services that require a dedicated server and i cant afford the price of the dedicated server couz i am a high school student.. anyway, please tell me where i can get a good tutorial to help me do this.. i looked on google and i got some tutorials that taught me how to make my own server but i cant access my server without an ip address and not everyone is a geek to access the site using ip addresses. so how can i use my domain name with my home based dedicated server??

Answer 1

While I agree with SvenW that this is a very bad idea (and will probably violate your home internet account's TOS and get you kicked off, but we'll assume that you're somewhere where the TOS doesn't ban servers and/or you upgraded to business-class), as long as your home computer's IP address doesn't change, you just need to edit your domain's DNS settings (probably at your domain registrar's site if you're not running your own DNS server) to create an A record (say, home.example.com) that points to it.

If your home IP address does change, then you're pretty much out of luck. You would have to edit your DNS settings every time it changes and wait for caches to expire so the new settings can take effect. Otherwise, you could get a hostname from dyndns or some similar service, but this would be a dyndns.com address rather than your own domain, and you will not be able to get anyone to issue an SSL certificate for it.