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:welcome Have you considered renting a dedicated server? That may be worth it. But you pretty much can use the following: you need some sort of nailed down connection with a static IP. You should have DNS resolve to that IP address for one domain. I suggest using a Linux Box, like RedHat linux. Then you can install Sendmail, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and more to be able to do all the things that any host can do.

all you need is [url=http://www.ultradns.com/services/?OVRAW=dns%20service&OVKEY=dns%20service&OVMTC=standard]managed dns service[/url] you login and set your dns to the ip address they assigned you! that's it.

Thank you for your replies. Let me see if I understood properly or not. 1. I have to login to the website where I have registered the website (DNS) and there I have to enter my IP address so that it will be directed to my IP address. 2. Now the requests will come to my router. (I have 3 machines connected to the router). From there how do I say that HTTP or mail requests should be redirected to one of the machine(server)? 3. Don't I have to make changes in Apache httpd.conf file? What kind of changes I need to make? Thank you for your time again. Viswa

Not sure how the router would work. But in general, the way it's done is that the DNS server lists the IP addresses of the machine that ultimately responds for the request. I'll give you an example. [code:1:1b379e2ec7] NS ns1.mosthost.net. NS ns2.mosthost.net. NS ns3.mosthost.net. NS ns4.mosthost.net. A 205.158.183.126 $ORIGIN web-mastery.net. www A 205.158.183.126 [/code:1:1b379e2ec7] That gives you the basic idea. The NS records tell the end request what servers to look up. Then the individual name server (ns1.mosthost.net as long as its up) responds with the address of 205.158.183.126. This example is the standard way to host a site. I'll include and example of the VirtualHost in Apache. Here it is: [code:1:1b379e2ec7] NameVirtualHost 205.158.183.126 <VirtualHost 205.158.183.126> ServerName www.web-mastery.net ServerAlias web-mastery.net ServerAdmin webmaster@web-mastery.net DocumentRoot /www/webmastery/html/ DirectoryIndex index.php ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/www/webmastery/html/cgi-bin/" LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"" TransferLog /wm_access_log ErrorLog logs/wm_error_log </VirtualHost> [/code:1:1b379e2ec7] The only difference you described is you added a router between the process. However, it may not matter at all as long as the end machine responds with the same IP address that is specified in DNS.

That's gonna definitely depend on the router configuration. They are probably using some sort of aliasing/forwarding DCHP type setup. Static IP's are almost always the best route although of course there's a way around everything.