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Post by gobuchul74 on Mar 2, 2006 1:13:03 GMT -5
I was wondering if anyone here runs their own web server at home and what your experience was like with that. Is it a problem keeping up with security issues?
I'm setting up a file server for my home. It will be a bunch of disks set up in RAID 5, and was thinking about using it to run a small web site as well.
I don't have alot of Linux experience, but I can get around with it. I would probably run it on Windows just because I'd feel more confortable that I knew what was going on.
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Post by mrfixit2k on Mar 2, 2006 4:55:04 GMT -5
Well i can imagine it would be as safe as anything else hooked up to the internet. I havn't ran any webhosting software for a while, but i would check for something that is in reletivly wide use so most of the security problems will have been addressed and this ensures active tech support to provide assistance when somone does get in. The addition of a firewall allowing only access to the perticular ports would help out. In putting up a website you make more people aware of your presence and invite snoopers around.
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Post by David Murray on Mar 2, 2006 8:32:42 GMT -5
I run my website from my home. That includes the Hummer DTV and a lot of other stuff. I just have a standard home-DSL line. My server runs Windows 2000 Pro and Apache webserver. I used to use Linux and Apache. Anyway, I use www.dyndns.org to get a free dynamic domaindame. If you have a home DSL line, you probably don't have your own static IP.. so this is the easy way around that. my website is: galaxy22.dyndns.org/misc/hummerdtv/index.htmlKeep in mind.. a home DSL line has a typical upload speed of 128K to 256K. I think mine is 128K. That works okay on a low usage website like mine. As long as only 1 or 2 people are pulling pages from it at a time, it works fine.
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Post by Leif Bloomquist on Mar 2, 2006 9:28:31 GMT -5
www.jammingsignal.com is run on an old Pentium 100 at my house over DSL, running some ancient version of Red Hat Linux and Apache. Never had any problems. I also have a pretty aggressive firewall set up though, built into my router (rented from my ISP). It blocks everything except ssh, FTP, (which forward to the Linux box) and Telnet (which forwards to my Win2K machine for the BBS).
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Post by gobuchul74 on Mar 2, 2006 12:51:18 GMT -5
Dang, thats pretty good. I was planning on using a 1GHz VIA CPU and wasn't sure if that would be enough for a web server. I guess it's enough to keep up with the limited bandwidth of Home DSL. My ISP offers static IP's, but the price for that goes up considerably. I'll have to check out www.dyndns.orgThanks!
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Post by David Murray on Mar 2, 2006 15:35:11 GMT -5
Oh sure. I used to use a 486 at 66 Mhz for a webserver many years ago. There are a few things to keep in mind about how much power you need. First, if your web-pages are static (hence, not being created dymanically, like these forums are) then it is almost just like doing a flie-transfer. There really isn't a lot of horsepower needed. Secondly, how many users are going to be using it at once? The simple fact you are on a DSL line automatically means you aren't going to be getting too much. So for a simple website with static HTML pages, almost any computer can run it. Even a Commodore 64 running Contiki.
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Post by Jeff Ledger on Mar 2, 2006 16:29:10 GMT -5
Yeah, rolling your own webserver is easy and you'll learn alot about how webservers work in the process. bbs.petscii.com runs on my DSL connection with a 568k upstream connection which is perfect for what I use it for. The trick I used is to have my hosting provider provide an additional DNS entry to point the subdomain BBS toward the ipaddress that sprint gives me. The box itself runs a copy of slackware which gives me everything I need for perl developement and webserver.
Most days everything works perfectly.. (except today) as there is a major sprint outage in Ohio today.
Jeff
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Post by gobuchul74 on Mar 4, 2006 18:53:08 GMT -5
Jeff, If you don't mind. What did you ise to create the www.petscii.com pages? I've used Frontpage in the past. I think your webpages look pretty sharp. Simple, but still graphically appealing.
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Post by Golan Klinger on Mar 4, 2006 22:26:08 GMT -5
You have to use the source, Luke. <meta name="generator" content="Web Page Maker V2"> You can find it here: www.webpage-maker.com/
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