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how to web host from home?

You'd be much better off paying $5 a month to have your site hosted on a shared server. You'll have better uptime, better bandwidth, and better security (instead of opening up your PC to the internet)

In addition, your ISP (AT&T) may block the ports required for hosting at home if you are not on a business plan.

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1and1.com will host your website for free for the first 3 or 6 months depending upon the plan you sign up for. After that it's still quite inexpensive. If your business isn't able to afford hosting by that time, you'll probably be working somewhere else then
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Since you say you don't know what you're doing, DON'T attempt to host it from home on a computer you depend on for other things.

You should look at Office 365 or Google's offerings. Yes, there are free options out there but, as a 30+ year small business owner, I cannot emphasize enough that you absolutely have to put money into your infrastructure if you expect to have any kind of success.
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is there any way to keep the domain that i have through homestead.com if i want to use a cheaper service to host the site? i really like my name which i created through homestead, but i would like someone else to host it.

It seems you'll need to contact their customer service first.

Transferring a domain out of Homestead:
»www.homestead.com/~site/scripts_···e32_2603

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If it is a .com or .net you should be able to just change the IP address to where you are hosting it. The host can provide you with the address information, and homestead should have a control panel where you log in and change it...or contact their customer support to do it for you.

If homestead won't let you control where it's hosted, you should be able to change your registrar to namecheap or some other. Once moved, you can then control where it points.
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A previous client I worked with originally used Homestead.com. It was a real PITA to work with them trying to get some control of the domain but still use them for some of their services. Good luck if you really have to go down that road.

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I have had my own small hosting buisness running for a while now and I am hoping to expand out, get new customers and such. Not sure if I can advertise here, so I won't at this point.

But basically I need people's input. So I know what to offer, what people need and any other information that might help.

Basically I am running under multiple systems which are growing all the time. All the costs I have are paid until 2010. So I am not going to be a here today gone tomorrow kind of guy.

But as I say I could do with some suggestions and such, which may or may not be of help.