[Gllug] ADSL hosting at home.

[Jim Bailey]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:49:47AM +0100, hari Pillai wrote:
> Hi All,
> 	Any on the list, hosting a web server using ADSL at home?. Just
> wondering what the configuration / hardware requirement for such a setup
> would be, I am thinking of setting this up..
>
The most important thing to do is check your terms and conditions a lot
of home ADSL packages do not allow any form of web server, streaming
audio etc.  However buisiness packages are down to 30UKP and will have a
20:1 ratio extra static IPs and will allow you to do all this, well worth
checking out.

Hardware wise you could run it off your Linux desktop or alternatively
gett some thing cheap and nasty from somewhere like RL supplies. [1]
You should not be paying more than 250UKP for a 1GHZ Athlon where ever
you buy it.

Memory is never a bad idea 128MB is OK but more never did any harm.

You might want ot consider a decent NIC Intel being my current favorite
for a whole load of reasons I won't go into here but PXE and bangs per
bucks springs to mind.

Configuration:

Unless you are sh*t hot at rolling your own packages consider keeping
the whole box running off standard binaries.  My own well documented
preferences here is Debian.  subscribe to the Debian security list and
run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade daily, more frequently if a DSA
notice is released.  If you are an rpm user Mandrake have something
similar but I have never used it.

The only thing to really configure before you're up an running should be
the ServerName directive in /ect/apache/httpd.conf tell the people you
bought your domain off to point their DNS records to your IP address and
you should be away.

I am sure that I have missed off several very important steps but hey it
0200hrs I am back on 12hr 7 day shift schedule and am very likely to
ramble manically in my email for the next few days.  Apologies in
advance. ;)

You can check out some links on my home page at http://freesolutions.net
they may be of use to you.  Have fun and good luck. :)

Peace Jim


[1] http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk 
I neither support or recommend RL supplies they are neither Linux or
Microsoft friendly they do one thing and one thing only sell kit cheap,
remember you get what you pay for.  That said I have had very little
problems with their kit over the last couple of years

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