Home web server

[Daniel Armstrong]

Hi all... Anybody hosting their own web server from home?

As a learning exercise I am considering setting up a server with this
configuration:

Hardware: Asus EeePC 900HA (built-in UPS! :-)
OS: Debian Squeeze
Web Server: nginx serving up some static web pages created in ikiwiki
Router: Linksys WRT54GL running Tomato 1.27
ISP: Teksavvy (whose Terms of Use allow running home servers)

A few questions:

1/ Good registrar? I saw the earlier thread about registering *.ca
domains... any reason to pay a bit more at domainsatcost.ca vs - for
example - godaddy to register a *.com domain?

2/ For a home server... has experience proved it pays to put the
server on a separate subnet vs basic forwarding of port 80? I found a
good tutorial for creating another VLAN in Tomato:

http://www.seiichiro0185.org/doku.php/blog:creating_a_seperate_guest_network_with_tomato

Any thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.
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