Home web server

[Jason Carson]

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

Yeah, I run my personal website and mail server from my home. All you need
is a static IP from TekSavvy.

> 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)

I use my Linux box as a router/webserver/mailserver/samba/Wireless Access
Point/DNS. I am currently using Gentoo.

> 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?

I registered my .ca at http://www.netfirms.ca

> 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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