Web hosting using a domain on my Mac

Hi all,
I have been looking at possibilities of hosting my own website on my mac,
I know how to do this by personal web sharing and that I need to port forward on my router etc.
My question is; if I own a domain like mydomainname.com, can I have users access my site through www.mydomainname.com instead of the usual http://(ipaddress)/ or http://(ipaddress)/~(username)?
and also how many web sites can I host on one machine in this way?
Thanks,

My question is; if I own a domain like mydomainname.com, can I have users access my site through www.mydomainname.com instead of the usual http://(ipaddress)/ or http://(ipaddress)/~(username)?
Sure. You just set the DNS for your domain so that www.mydomainname.com points to your IP address.
and also how many web sites can I host on one machine in this way?
How many do you want? Hundreds? thousands?
The limit is not the number of sites you run, it's the amount of traffic you're getting an the bandwidth you have available. If you're sitting on a typical broadband connection with, say 512kbps upsteam, that is going to be your limit. You can host literally thousands of sites if they only get one hit per day, but at some point those sites are going to overwhelm your bandwidth.
You need to look at the traffic on the sites before you can answer that question more directly.

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