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

[Phillip Rhodes]

Chad Thomsen wrote:

> 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).

For a simple personal website, it's probably sufficient.


> 4.  Any issues with doing such a thing with Road Runner.

Only the possibility that they might block port 80, now or 
in the future.  I've  heard different stories from people
about what ports they block.. in my own case, I've never 
been able to get port 22 traffic to my home machine, and 
assume they are blocking that.  But port 80 works fine. 
<shrug> YMMV.

> 5.  What dynamic DNS service to you all use or is buying a static IP address
> cheaper?

I think with RR, you can only get a static IP if you get 
"business class" service, which is pricey.  I bought a 
domain at GoDaddy ($6.95 or so, for a .us) and use zoneedit 
(free) to handle the dynamic DNS.

> 6.  What distro of linux would you use for a project of this nature?

You'll get every answer under the sun to this question, but 
I'd go with CentOS, personally.  No particular reason, 
though, other than familiarity.  For what it sounds like
you're trying to do, probably almost any distro would be fine.


TTYL,


Phillip
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