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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">There's no dark arts involved in
hosting your own, it's certainly nothing a linux user should be
paying for!<br>
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The only cost of hosting yourself is you have to leave the machine
on 24/7 so choose hardware you can afford - at last calculation
200Watts running 24/7 comes to nearly 80 quid per year in lecci
bills.<br>
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Instead you could use an ultra low power device like a
Rikomagic.co.uk MK802 - linux howto's abound (I am sure there are
people on the list who have played with them). You don't need a
monitor on the server except for the initial install perhaps, but
thereafter it can run entirely headless, use ssh to talk to it.<br>
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Cheapest option is use your workday machine, advice is to use a VM
like VirtualBox (yuk) or KVM (stable). For QEMU/KVM install
virt-manager as an easy gui. Networking setup on Virtualbox is
easier than kvm.<br>
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Once you have a plan with hardware, hosting WP yourself is *very
straighforward*, this is all you need to do:<br>
<br>
Do a standard Deb/Fedora install to set up a basic webserver with
nginx (or apache), mysql and php. Look for LEMP or LAMP howto's.<br>
<br>
Alternatively you could use one of the pre-rolled distros with a
control panel that do IMAP, SMTP. SSL, proxy, VPN and everything
(ClearOS is pretty quick to set up and dead stable,
Centos6-based), they all have a small learning curve though so
it's often more useful to do it yerself as above.<br>
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Now your ready for the easy wordpress install. Once that's running
migrate your existing WP site: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress">http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress</a><br>
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Using TalkTalk you'll probably have a dynamic IP address. To use a
dynamic IP for server hosting is quite possible:<br>
<br>
1) Register a free yourdomain.dyndns.org and get any device on
your network to keep it updated with changes, usually the router
has a facility for this, but Linux also has loads like dd-client
or ipcheck.<br>
2) In your domain DNS Control Panel use a CNAME record to alias
yourdomain.org.uk to yourdomain.dyndns.org, so your site will
still 99% of the time be accessible from sharons.org.uk.<br>
3) Spend some phone time with talktalk asking them to increase you
upload speed, by default they throttle it in my experience.<br>
<br>
Set your router up to forward TCP 80 to your server. Also ssh (22)
so you have a remote shell. Be sure to allow incoming firewall on
server for the ports you want.<br>
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That's it really. :)<br>
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Of course it will all take you some time if you havent done it
before, but having root on your own webserver is empowering. YOU
edit your own php.ini and YOU decide how big your want your PHP
uploads and memory allocation etc. If your skilled (or learning)
bash, python, java, php etc you can pretty much do anything with
your server. (Check out imagemagick via php shell it's too much
fun)<br>
<br>
Perhaps there are others on the list with enough existing
knowledge try it for themselves, and others to support them as
they go? <br>
<br>
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On 14/10/13 12:48, Sharon Kimble wrote:<br>
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Dan Attwood <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:danattwood@gmail.com"><danattwood@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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I have two domains registered to me which I want to keep, use and
transfer, but I'm not sure of how to do it. They are both 'org.uk'
which makes it a bit simpler. Not sure of what information is required
of me before I tell 1and1 that I'm moving my sites. So any help,
advice, sites, tutorials, etc would be very gratefully received.
I am considering self-hosting, but although i have the computer spare
to do it with, I don’t have a spare monitor to use it from. Is it
possible to host it on this machine I'm on now?
Thanks
Sharon.
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On 14 October 2013 10:49, Laurence Southon <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:laurence@southon.uk.net"><laurence@southon.uk.net></a>
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<pre wrap="">Consequently I'm now looking for alternative hosting for my sites
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Two suggestions:
If you want to take the Linux sysadmin route:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bytemark.co.uk/">http://www.bytemark.co.uk/</a>
Or for cheaper shared hosting:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vidahost.com/page/**fast-uk-wordpress-hosting">https://www.vidahost.com/page/**fast-uk-wordpress-hosting</a><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.vidahost.com/page/fast-uk-wordpress-hosting"><https://www.vidahost.com/page/fast-uk-wordpress-hosting></a>
LS
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