Hubs are necessary not only directly to connect computers. It also powerful instrument of filesharing and also convenient user online chat. It is no wonder that some visitors of file hosting services anyway begin to think of creation of own hub.
Instruction
1. Before beginning process of creation of own hub, decide on its name which should be memorable that he was recognized as you by, and your future visitors. As soon as the name is thought up, visit the website Dynamic DNS and register on one of the servers no-ip.com or dyndns.org.
2. After you receive the beautiful hub address, convenient for storing, download the special program server. It will be started on your computer and to connect to a remote server. In most cases for creation of hubs the small PtokaX program in 1 MB which is not requiring any special knowledge of installation is used.
3. Start the PtokaX program and configure it for work. Leave the majority of settings standard by default, except for three points. In the graph "Name of a Hub" enter a hub name. Specify the IP address of a hub which you received on the website Dynamic DNS in the graph "Hub Address". In the graph "Nickname in the Administrator's Chat" enter that nickname which you will use for a talk in the Users menu - "Chat".
4. Click the Apply key, and then the Start a Hub function. Thereby you activate the created hub.
5. Check work of your hub. For this purpose open for DC ++, the client program for Direct Connect network, and come into the menu of settings. Add the address of the created hub, click the Connect key, and you will appear on the page of the hub.
6. Do not forget that insufficiently just to create own file hosting service and to wait for appearance of visitors. It is necessary to take active actions for involvement of users on your hub, except you nobody knows about its existence. Therefore will be useful to register a hub on the website hublist.org and also to contact administrators of other systems of file sharing that they added your hub to the list of hubs friends.