[Gllug] Hosting from home

[Garry Heaton]

There was an article at Linuxnewbie which mentioned the security
advantages of having seperate boxen. Obviously this could be taken to
extremes with another for DNS, Mail etc. but that's why I enquired about
using old hardware as you can pick-up a 2nd-hand P3 400/500 for next to
nothing these days. It would give me experience in administering a setup
which emulates something used on a larger scale as I don't work for a
company so can't get the experience any other way. I take your point,
though, and maybe simply seperate partitions/disks would be enough for
some of this.

However it's done I'm looking to host a couple of low access sites with
a backend setup which is more complex than necessary so that I can get a
handle on all the security stuff I read so much about.

Garry Heaton


Message: 7 To: gllug at linux.co.uk Subject: Re: [Gllug] Hosting from home
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:59:52 +0100 From: Tethys <tet at accucard.com>
Reply-To: gllug at linux.co.uk

>I hear a lot about running servers on old, cheap hardware but doesn't
>this affect:
>
>- disk access speed if the HD is old?
>- memory performance if the RAM is old spec?
>
>If it really is possible to use such old hardware without performance
>being affected too much on small sites then I plan to set-up a network
>with seperate boxes for:
>
>- Firewall
>- Web server
>- Database server
>- Log server
>
>Any suggestions?


As others have said, pretty much any old box you can get your hands on
is more than capable or saturating an ADSL line, so don't worry about
disk or memory speed.

Also, why the separate boxen? I'd always argue for having a separate
firewall box, but there's no reason you can't stick the web server,
database and logs all on a single box. Remember, you've only got to
be able to saturate a 256Kb/s line. Unless you're doing some hideously
complex database queries, there's no reason to need a separate DB
server. Having a separate log server only really comes into its own
when you have a web server farm, for example, so that everything's
logged in one place.

Tet





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