Home web server

[ted leslie]

yeah i looked at doing this too.
I already discovered in my travels:
You have to force off the screen (can do it, google for it),
you have to put it on a fan-bed (they sell these things for notebooks),
you can get them to power from usb.
I have also experimented with usb gigabit adapter on it, and was happy.
No need for the linksys in the loop.
I was going to use it as a home router, had 4 ethernets working on it, and blasted files across the
zones and was very happy. Of course it would also make a nice web server.
Fan makes a whinny sound, and i guess would break in time, but a good fan set up should allow
it to stay working with even a dead fan. But I was tempted to open it up and see if I could do better, 
as i wasn't convinced i'd get 10 years mean time between crash/failures.
May also want to consider a cisco with linux on it.
If price isn't too much of a concern, also check out linuxdevices.com  for fanless low power draw
devices.
Has built in ups, but will wind down to nothing in a few year. I would still put in the wart and
put it to a ups as well (redundant ups!), and then look to switch out batteries in both as needed.
Only unknown would be, after 24/7 for a year(s), would something just go on it due to a heat pocket somewhere.


tl

On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:42:03 -0400
Daniel Armstrong <daniel-r35aSzp7v8jQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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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