How to Q&A make a server computer to host a site?
Tim
Southwest PA Icrontian
I'm thinking of taking one of my extra computers I have laying around and using it to host a website. Not my regular website (loudmouthtim.com), just some simple page for a while, maybe with some pictures and video on it. Just to do it for the experience.
I might even use it to host a webcam for my main site.
But I'll leave my website where it is, it's always run good there and I don't want to mess that up. This project is just something extra.
I've got a fast cable internet connection, so for all the more it'll likely get used, that should be fine. On several speed tests, it shows around 6000 KBPS download and around 350 KBPS upload.
I'm planning to use my Dell Latitude CPi-A366XT laptop, which has a new 20 GB hard drive, a 366 Pentium 2, and 256 MB of RAM in it.
I have a router in my home network so we'll have to get that set up to send the IP address to one line specifically. I read something like that anyhow.
Here's the article I was reading.
http://www.pcmech.com/show/network/690/
I read a few others as well, but this one seemed to be the best of the group for giving me useful information.
What don't I know yet? What tricky things have to be set up to make it work?
My biggest question is how do I establish a domain name (www. whatever it may be .com) and get it to point to the server computer, especially since I have a cable modem and cheap $10 computer show Dynex router for it to go through to get to the server.
I might even use it to host a webcam for my main site.
But I'll leave my website where it is, it's always run good there and I don't want to mess that up. This project is just something extra.
I've got a fast cable internet connection, so for all the more it'll likely get used, that should be fine. On several speed tests, it shows around 6000 KBPS download and around 350 KBPS upload.
I'm planning to use my Dell Latitude CPi-A366XT laptop, which has a new 20 GB hard drive, a 366 Pentium 2, and 256 MB of RAM in it.
I have a router in my home network so we'll have to get that set up to send the IP address to one line specifically. I read something like that anyhow.
Here's the article I was reading.
http://www.pcmech.com/show/network/690/
I read a few others as well, but this one seemed to be the best of the group for giving me useful information.
What don't I know yet? What tricky things have to be set up to make it work?
My biggest question is how do I establish a domain name (www. whatever it may be .com) and get it to point to the server computer, especially since I have a cable modem and cheap $10 computer show Dynex router for it to go through to get to the server.
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Curious, though: do you get 350 kB/sec or kb/sec? Bytes or bits?
god i hope he gets more than 350 kb/s.
That's over twice as fast as I get on my cable. Sounds about right, too - that's average (Charter is well below average on pretty much everything). If he could upload at 350 kilobytes per second... well then that's just plain not fair