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

[David McDowell]

I'll just comment on the distro selection.  I use CentOS 4.x at home,
love it, has a long life cycle, stable, etc.  A Debian release would
give you the same, and an even LONGER life cycle!  Me, I'm unfamiliar
with deb except in an Ubuntu desktop area, which is slim knowledge at
best.  Using something like Fedora Core is far too unstable and way
too many package updates, way too short a life cycle for running a
stable, solid server.  Think of FC as debian testing or even debian
unstable?  I actually saw someone at the LUG meeting last night
running SuSE (brave IMHO) and I was never impressed with Mandriva
(used to be Mandrake) but others like it.

RR port 22 and 80 no problem for 5.5 years.  I use zoneedit.com for
free DNS on dynamic IP.


On 12/9/05, Scott Lundgren <trilug at capitalfellow.com> wrote:
> > 1. What is good software used to host a photos that you can browse
> > easily.
> >
> I use gallery 1.x from http://gallery.menalto.com/. It is OSS, the code
> is on sourceforge, the website is offsite.
>
> > 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).
>
> It's perfect and near what I used to run (450 P2, 512 Mb, 6 Gb). Now my
> development box is a (500 P3, 512 Mb, 40 Gb disk) with PHP 4.x, Apache
> 2.x, MySQL 4.x installed. Occasionally I'll start X, and most
> applications work well enough. Open Office is the only thing I've seen
> that takes a measurable amount of time to start. But that's not your
> intent. I don't have any performance numbers about this configuration.
>
> > 4.  Any issues with doing such a thing with Road Runner.
> Check your service agreement if you're concerned about legality.
>
> > 5.  What dynamic DNS service to you all use or is buying a static IP
> > address
> > cheaper?
>
> I was using the free service from dyndns.com. I was very happy with it
> so I bought their $25/year custom DNS solution so now my primary
> website & email is accessible through my hosting provider but if I need
> to get into my dev server I've got a subdomain just for it. There's a
> small client on the dev box that runs via cron to update it's DNS
> record when/if its IP changes.
>
> > 6.  What distro of linux would you use for a project of this nature?
>
> The 450 P2 ran Fedora Core 2. The 500 P3 is running FC 3 with legacy
> updates. If I was going to start the project fresh with older hardware
> I might pick Debian's Sarge release.
>
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