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

[Chad Thomsen]

So you have your box running httpd and DNS?  Kewl.  RR really accepts zone
transfers from its non-business accout home user customers?  I did not think
they would but have never tried.  I will have to give it a try as it sounds
cool.  So the ony cost you have is the cost of your registered domain name
(unless you count the cost of your hardware/software/broadband).  I suppose
you would not have to pay for that unless its either taken already or you
were afraid of somebody else taking it away from you.

Can you set up a Linux DNS to do zone transers at a given interval incase
the IP addy would change and you no realize it?

Thanks!

Chad

On 12/9/05, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
>
> I've been running a server on RR for about a year and my DNS has only
> changed once and that was really early on. Just change your zone file to
> point to the assigned IP and remember if it stops working to update. My
> down time has minimal and setting up some kind of dydns system seems not
> to be worth the effort at the moment. YMMV. :-)
>
> Dave S.
>
> David McDowell wrote:
> > 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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