Re: running my own web/ftp server?
- From: Eric <NoOne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:32:10 -0700
beowulf@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
How dependable is running a linux PC server out of one's home for web
documents, remote ftp, etc.? I am frustrated to say the least at my
current hosting company (lunarpages.com)-- it all has been great for
several years, but this year they farmed out their tech support to the
Pacific Rim (India, etc) and it is frustrating whether by phone or
email to try to get tech support; I would like to say the tech support
are idiots but I know it is more a language barrier issue. They never
seem to understand what I need done when I request addon domains,
redirects, subdomains, etc, which I sometimes need help on when their
control panel does not do the job.
Sigh. Well, I am contemplating setting up a spare PC linux static ip
server in my home, for serving up webpages and files, sftp (just for
me), ssh, etc. The primary use is for materials I use in teaching
college for students to access. Nothing commercial per se. So I am
wondering if I set that up, how automated would it run, how much
maintenance would I need to do, how frequent of backups. Since the
server PC would be in my home, part of my LAN, could I perhaps
configure some sort of mirroring program to automate the backup over
the network to my other PC? Any considerations regarding hardware--
e.g. I have heard somwhere to go with a slower older PC perhaps that
does not even need a fan on the CPU so such a fan could not stop
running and ruin the pc.
one drawback, if you run a web or ftp server at home your outload speeds
will be poor. for example, comcast cable lets you download at 6mb/s but the
outgoing is only 256 or 512k. If thats still ok, then next you need to find
dns service. ZoneEdit is free and works well. Finally, you need to be able
to "script update" zoneedit if your IP changes, you can do that with a cron
job. I did exactly this for several years and it worked well.slow but
reliable and on top of that it was fun, i could write my own cgi and do
whatever i wanted with it. plus i leaned a lot about apache and postfix.
Oh, I almost forgot, you dont need DMZ, i never used and had ssh
access,ftp,web and mail all on my server and my other computers on the
local network all worked just fine too, you just set up port forwarding for
the individual services you wish to provide. Say your linux box is running
apache and ssh, well you just port forward ports 80 and 22 to the linux box
local IP.
Eric
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