Re: Q: Is that possible to start my own basement web server with Linux?

From: Luc The Perverse (sll_noSpamlicious_z_XXX_m_at_cc.usu.edu)
Date: 10/07/05 

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:27:50 -0600

"nyMexTrader" <nyMexTrader@yohoo.ca> wrote in message
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> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> nyMexTrader wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to set up a non-profit purpose only free-web-hosting
>>> service for people who want to host their personal homepage with their
>>> private registered domains without advertising. I wonder if that
>>> possible for me to set up a Linux based server for that? I only have a
>>> 5mbps broadband connection.
>>
>>
>> Linux don't prevent you from running your own web host in your basement,
>> nor would it prevent you to earn money on a such service, but your ISP
>> may have rules about hosting on your own machine, some even blocks ports
>> like 80, but in those cases you could get around by letting the web
>> server run on another port that isn't blocked.
>>
>> Linux makes it quite easy to run a web server, as most distros comes with
>> apache and apache has a really good support on running virtual hosts, so
>> in theory you can host as many domains you want, as long as you have
>> space on your computers hard drives and you can afford to register all
>> the domains.
>>
>> The main problem you can run into is that your friends loads up video
>> streams, this will consume a lot of your hard drive space and bandwidth,
>> but you can setup bandwidth limitations, so that no one visitor get all
>> the bandwidth while the rest gets messages about the web server being to
>> busy to handle their requests (read more about iptables to find out how
>> to do limitations).
>>
>> Just see to that you have good iptable rules and you keep software up to
>> date, then you shouldn't get any problems.
>>
>>
>> //Aho
>
>
> Thanks for the insightful layman term explanation. Our web page is
> basically individual resumes with a Jpeq picture and short voice self
> introduction. I don't think it will over hold more than 5 meg disk space
> each.
>
> One more issue, how do I point the domains to the new Linux server we
> registered year ago or longer? Do we have to use some sort of redirect
> services?

Your domain registration should have included DNS - unfortunately, many do
not and try to charge some sort of premium for this. (A bunch of BS if you
ask me.)

Switch to a registration service which includes free DNS (a charge of about
10$)

Note: Redirection is defintely not the same thing. 

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