[Gllug] ADSL hosting at home.

[Tethys]

>	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..

No, but it's a) not hard, but b) not a good idea. ADSL will give you
256Kb/s upload speed, which is pretty poor for a public web site. If
you host the site on your ISP's servers, then you'll get to use their
bandwidth to the net, which is significantly more than 256K...

The only real reason for wanting to do it on your own machine is if
you want to play around with stuff that may not supported on your
ISP's web server (databases, mod_php, mod_perl, servlets, etc.) But
even then, you'd probably only want to do it either as a test system,
or if you anticipate very low traffic on your site.

The simplest way to set it up is to find an ISP that'll give you a
static IP, and won't block and ports for you. Then just forward all
traffic to that IP on port 80 to your NATed web server machine, and
start Apache. That's all there is to it. Oh, and you might want to
add a www.<your_domain> DNS entry...

Tet

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