[TriLUG] Hosting web site on old machine at home??

[Douglas Ward]

I think the machine should be able to handle it rather well.  I have built a
web/e-mail/listserv service for about 50 churches on this type of equipment
and it works well (hosted on my work T1).  I haven't run into any problems
with processing capability yet.  I also host my personal website(s) at home
on my Roadrunner connection.

1) Someone else can answer this.  I think there was a thread on this topic
in the last week or so?
2) Someone else can answer this as well.  My site is built using Frontpage
(my wife likes it) so I didn't research this.  She doesn't want to take the
time to learn NVU.
3) Absolutely.  It should run the website with little trouble.  I am using
similar hardware to host about 20 individual websites with varying traffic
levels.  I will replace the machine when I see it is overly taxed.  We are
nowhere near that point now.
4) The server I built at home is rock solid.  I have however seen the
Roadrunner connection go down a few times.  On a professional level I have
not been impressed with their uptime.  I do realize however that I am paying
for a home internet connection and expecting business class service.
5) I use no-ip.com for the dynamic dns service.  Their linux client is easy
to configure and I run the whole domain (web/e-mail/ftp) off of it.  I would
highly recommend it.
6) Mandriva is my distrubition of choice.  This is a loaded question as
there is likely someone on the list that will prefer all of the other
distributions.  I think Ubuntu has been fairly popular lately.  They all run
lamp so I'd go with the one you are most comfortable with.  I started with
Mandriva (Mandrake back then) and built my linux empire on it.  :)

On 12/9/05, Chad Thomsen <chad.thomsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Howdy.  Was thinking about hosting a web site at home on an old 400 P2
> pentium I have laying around the house.  Figured it would be a good way to
> futher my newbian knowedge of linux since I am primarly a
> Windows/AS400/Cisco guy.  Would probably load up some sort of lean distro
> and run apache.  Few questions though.
>
> 1. What is good software used to host a photos that you can browse easily.
> 2.  Good software for bloggs (doubt I will do blogging but figured I may
> as
> well ask)
> 3.  Is a 400 P2 128 megs of ram good enough for a lightly traveled web
> site.  Will not run a GUI to conserve resources.  Is this enough horse
> power
> to MySQL/PHP.  I might though togather a VERY basic dynamic web site just
> to
> tinker and learn PHP(if I can find time).
> 4.  Any issues with doing such a thing with Road Runner.
> 5.  What dynamic DNS service to you all use or is buying a static IP
> address
> cheaper?
> 6.  What distro of linux would you use for a project of this nature?
>
> Any opinions would be much appreciated.
>
> Thains!
>
> Chad
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