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

[Jim Wright]

I was recently thinking about setting up a development server with similar
hardware...but decided to go with a vps instead...
http://www.tektonic.net/vds.php?op=budget_plans
Their basic plan is $15/month, with a static IP...which is about what you
would spend in energy costs keeping that P2 up and running 24/7.  And my
wife doesn't complain about noisy hardware in some closet.

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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