.Mac Alternatives for Free

I am a cheap person and I was wondering what are some great .Mac alternatives. So far I have run into NotMac (Leapord not support) which makes your Mac the server and gives you all the feature of .Mac and how ever much space you have on the computer. And there is also sitesled.com for webhosting (like 512MB). Any Others That are good?????

Patrick Henke wrote:
Hosting on your machine isn't the best idea, home computers are not designed to handle web hosting. Thats what servers are for. Although it will work, you are almost assured a painfully slow load times for anyone not on your computer.
Not true, web server is very light weight (for home use), modern computers should be able to... I used to have a PPC-9600 as a server, heck my Newton PDA could host a web site (text base).
Now, the problems are the contents and the back-end pipe, ie: at home you have what? DSL? cable modem? if you have DSL connection your upload speed is ~400kbits/sec, I have to check cable modem speed.
Nonetheless, the real problem is that you have to leave the darn thing on all the time - even when you only get one hit a day.
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