How to easily turn your home computer/Laptop in to a webserver in under 2 mins?

Well, a webserver is necessary to host your site. If you are keen in hosting a website of your own, and don’t want to understand or learn what a DNS, FTP or CPanel is; then follow these simple instruction to convert your home computer/laptop in to a webserver. You can keep using your computer for all regular usage; at the same time can run your websites side by side.
Why do you need to convert a home based system in to a webserver?

1) You can host your files, be it videos or pictures or music and access it wherever you go through your website.

2) If you don’t want to pay the webhost a monthly fee

3) If you are not a computer geek and if you don’t want to use ftp or other file transfer programs and file managers

4) If you want to handle your website in the same manner as you handle your PC

5) If you want to start hosting small websites for your friends as well.

There are many other reasons as well.

Now let us see the requirements:

1) You need an average computer

2) Good internet connection (should be on 24/7)

3) If you want your website to be always active, then you need to run your computer 24/7

4) OS is not an issue, but Windows, Linux or a Mac based system is preferred.

Opera has made it damn easy, just two clicks and you will run your own webserver. Click here to download
Start the Opera Web browser (this opera web browser is going to be your webserver now) and enable the Opera Unite service from the lower left corner. The next step is to double click the file sharing link. Once you have have double clicked on it, then select the folder that you need to share. You can also assign a password if you don’t want to share your contents and want to keep it private.

To put what Opera is doing in few simple words.
The first thing is to get a unique number for your computer or Laptop.

Now that number will be linked to your computer.
Then when someone accesses the URL, it will then connect to the software running on your computer.
If you want a user guide, then you can get it here.