I am doing a project with my home servers and I am trying to use dyndns.com for a domain name.
Right now I got srv1.dnsdojo.com and I configured that into my linksys router. Now I got a little confused. Do I configure that domain name into my server?
Note:
I am using it because I got a dynamic IP
So I have designed some software for my brother who owns a business and needed a website to manage his clients and send emails to them and stuff. Right now we are using Hostmonster, which has been pretty good so far.
He was talking to me how it would be nice to be able to email the website and have the site automatically store the information in these emails into a database for information regarding his clients, which I know is possible, but not on a shared host it seems. I have tested my own email receiving script on a test server on my computer and it works fine. So we are continually finding our limits with a shared host. We have been looking into dedicated hosting, but as you all know its quite a price jump to go from $7 a month to $200+.
I got thinking and remembered that my dad has always had a business web plan from our ISP at home (cause he likes fast internet), which according to there website serves 1Mbps upload speed. We also have 2-3 old computers sitting at home that we don't use anymore (2)2ghz pentium 4 Dells and a 3.0ghz+ Pentium 4 HP. I was thinking we could probably just plug one of those into the router, forward some ports and have our own server up and running. For now we would only host this software I made for my bro, which is used by only 4 people, and that's not even at the same time usually. So there is very little load to deal with. But in the future we may put a few other sites that we have in mind which would use PHP and MySQL quite a bit.
I was just curious what some of your opinions were on creating a home server. I was looking at Ubuntu Server edition as a possibility, or XAMPP since all my machines are Windows XP. One machine doesn't work cause the hard drive is out, so if I use that I would probably have to put Ubuntu on it. Any suggestions on good server software would be great! I believe the business web plan my dad has also comes with a static IP as well, so that will help. Look forward to hearing your suggestions!
I am running windows 7 Ultimate.
I have installed Apache, PHP and MySQL cus they are |33t.
I am using free dns.. the domain name is PowerfulPlacement.com
localhost WORKS
PowerfulPlacement.com does not work... Here is my VirtualHost in my httpd.conf..
NameVirtualHost 72.219.185.53
<VirtualHost 72.219.185.53:80>
ServerName powerfulplacement.com
ServerPath D:/www
DocumentRoot "D:/www/"
<directory D:/www/>
allow from all
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
I dont know why powerfulplacement.com isn't working. I remember in linux I had to start up named or dns or something for it to work but I'm not quit sure with Windows.
ive got a windows server 2003 enterprise edition server at home and i have 8 static ip addresses that came with my adsl broadband
how can i set up a web server with that i also have a domain
step by step guide on setting up a web server at home
running my website from home. i have procured a static ip from my isp. i have also register the ip on opendns.com but now its not loading the site when i lunch the ip on browser. i prefer using the ip to reach my content. i am running iis on windows server 2003.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've got SUSE 10 loaded and installed at home.
My ISP service is highspeed from Comcast (speed right now not an issue), I would like to setup a domain name on the box to play around with - nothing serious yet.
I have several domain names purchased (Wildwest & Enom) and would like to use one of those on this box, or even more domains at a later day.
Any security risks with setting up server on home network? I would like to set up a computer running linux or xp as a computer on our home network. We have about 3 other computers on the same network.
My network manager says that it would be a security risk to the other computers on the network if I were to have the server running on the network. The server would be connected to a netgear wireless router and I would have ports 80 and 21 opened just for the internal ip address of the server. (for example, the server is on 192.168.0.3, and I had just the two ports open for it, while there were computers on 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.4).
The netgear router has a firewall built into it. Each of the other computers on the network have software firewalls. I would not have a firewall on the server, and I really don't care if someone hacks it. So, what at worst could happen? Would the other computers be at risk?
If you are a professional, I want your opinion also.
intend to hire someone to setup a server at my house. I will communicate with my isp in order to get a permanent IP. The reason I am doing this is I get too frustrated beings ddos'ed and even gigenet proxyshield cannot help me becuase of DMCA and other things.
Once I will have my server up and runnings, do you think it is possible to setup a ddos protection software/hardware ? If it's possible, do you have recommendation/lead for me so I can start looking at ?
Is there a simple tutorial on how to setup name servers within WHM? We have 4 IP's from the data center and thought to use 2 to run name servers. The scenario is we are moving a few websites over to this box and want to use the same name servers (ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com) but have it associated with the 2 new IP addresses. Can someone provide some info?
View 11 Replies View RelatedI've got 3 supermicro 1U servers with RAID 10 and 2003 Server Standard R2 and SQL 2005.
I've got a Netscreen 5GT firewall.
I've got Dotnetpanel
I've got the SmarterTools bundle
Whats the best way to set this up?
I put DNS, Email, Ticketing, Statistics and Dotnetpanel on Server #1
I put SQL 2005 on Server #2
I put the firewall in front with only 1 public IP
I've directed Port 80, 53, 21, 443 to Server #1 LAN IP
1. What do I do with server #3? How do I host websites with it if it doesn't have a public IP and port 80 is pointed at Server #1?
2. Is it common practice to connect web servers directly to the internet with a public address and no firewall or does everyone forward public ip's through a firewall?
3. I can tie everything into Active Directory;
to setup my nameservers for my vps, it is using lxadmin, and the help is not very good.
I would submit a ticket, but I figure this is something that they should not have to help me with.
So I have setup a dns template, and setup the name servers for this template to ns1.mydomain and ns2.mydomain
But I do not see anywhere to assign ns1.mydomain and ns2.mydomain ips.
Anybody with experience with lxadmin,
Im just wondering if anyone out there knows of any good books, etc for building webservers from start to finish.
What i want to know is what hardware, what OS is best, etc.
How to configure ports, etc.
i had a problem with setting up DNS in windows VPS server in plesk.
View 0 Replies View RelatedI have two VPS with two different Datacenters. I am running my website on one of the VPS which has Plesk Panel 11.5 installed on it. Since my second server is not in use, I would like to use it as a Secondary DNS Server for redundancy. I know this can be done with Plesk Expand. But, I am not in a position to invest further as I just run 4 domains on my main server. I was looking at installing some free control panel on my secondary VPS and set it up as a Secondary DNS Server if possible. But, I could not find any Guides on setting this up.
How I can do this? I see that we have an option in Plesk - 'Switch DNS Service mode' which can be used to either setup my first server as a Secondary or Primary. I have installed Webmin/Virtualmin on the second server, but how to set this up perfectly. I can reinstall the 2nd Server if required, but not my first one with Plesk.
I have a lot of questions here so if you can't answer them all I understand. even pointing me somewhere where I could get the answers would be appreciated; hardware sites focusing on server hardware, forums focusing on such, etc.
we plan to have three different types of servers:
- db server (self explanatory. mysql. for forums, mysql driven sites.)
- file server (lots of files around ~2-10MB, consistant 70mbps right now, but we want more room for upgrades. needs a LOT of storage room.)
- web server (lots of php files, but also static things like plain html, images, etc. also includes all misc services for the setup-- dns, etc.)
could I be given a rundown for which hardware each of the three should have? I don't need specifics, even just knowing that more ram is important here while cpu doesn't matter as much, or that the fastest disks available are a must, etc would all be valuable info for me. despite that, I certainly wouldn't mind specific hypothetical hardware configs.
for the database server I'm assuming the more ram the better. not entirely sure about the cpu? also not positive on disks...
for the fileserver, how much ram would be practical or useful? disk io will be an issue I'm because plenty of people will be pulling files at once so the disk needs to read from multiple places. scsi (and even raptors) are not an option as we need 750GB+ of space on a reasonable budget. more ram will take some load of of the disks, but how much is neccessary / reasonable?
for the web server I'm assuming cpu first, then ram, but it'll likely need less ram than the db server?
I'm more lost on the disks than anything. scsi on the fileserver is not an option under any circumstances due to $/GB. for the db & web server I'm willing to pay for scsi if the performance increase really does warrant the extra money, but I'd like to be convinced before shelling it out. if you have benchmarks geared at server hardware when it comes to disks I'd really appreciate it.
also, what's the best way to network these together when colocated? each one with a dual gigabit ethernet port and then the communications go to and from the router?
i was just wondering can we build our own pc and send it to a data center?
I was planning on just building a cheap pc with maybe an xp3000+, 512mb of ram and stack in 2TB worth of HDD space on it, then just pay for the rack space and the b/w
But, is this possible, is a normal midi tower case to big for this?
We send mail to another servers but we cant recieve mails another servers. We can't recieve with webmail and outlook.
I look logs but there is no error and our ip is not in blacklist.
there is the error in our server
[url]
linux cpanel centos 4.6
I understand the risks of not using a datacenter, but for a smallish site to which uptime isn't key, is it possible to get server-quality bandwidth to my house? (No I don't mean like Gigabit, I mean like upwards of 5mbps)? I'd really like to maintain my own server (probably build one).
I live in Milwaukee, so colocation is, AFAIK, out. And while I can save up for and buy a computer every few years, I cannot sustain $80/month. (I am a middle school student. My income isn't exactly regular.)
So the question... can I get an ISP to let me run a server at decent speeds out of my house? Would its costs exceed colocation or that of a dedicated server?
Have had my support ticket open for over a week now, have added a few exta replies to it, no response from them. They haven't been on MSN either.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a spare machine which is fairly fast, i like to know what are the steps to make a web server from home that actually works well, i have a static IP and a fast internet too.
Which operating system works better and any guide to a step by step setup.
How do I keep users from spying on each others files? If I chmod -x /home/ all kinds of crap breaks. Would setting 660 along with setfacl u:apache:rwx work?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI want to ask if what are the things needed to establish my own server here at home? What are racks? I did some research but I can't understand it.
What are the things needed? RAM? bandwidth where to get? by the way my location is here in philippines
to replace the current router/firewall/gateway on my home LAN with a lower-end PC running pfSense. (A FreeBSD-based distro with a web GUI for managing pf and the like.)
Since the system will be passing all the network traffic anyway, I'm interested in the possibility of having it watch for anything suspicious. Snort is the obvious choice: I want it to spot incoming/outgoing suspicious network activity.
What I wonder, though, is if there is really a lot of benefit to running this on a home LAN? If it was a big corporate network, I could see wanting it to keep an eye on things, but we only have a handful of machines, and they're all pretty secure.
It'd be running on a ~1 GHz PC with 512 MB RAM... Given that the machine would already be acting as firewall/router, caching DNS server, and running PHP/Apache for the management interface / graph generation, is piling Snort on top of that asking for trouble?
I'm just wondering what the practicalities and problems might be in setting up a web server from home. At the moment we have a 2Mb cable connection but our provider offers a 20Mb connection.
Would it be possible to set up a small hosting business from home with such a connection?
Recently I bought a static IP from an ISP and trying to setup so that I can enable my home PC as a web server and can be accessible thru internet.
I wanted to setup with Apache Server. I have windows vista OS installed. Please point me where I can find some documentation on web server setup and configuring static IP address, firewall setup, etc.,
i got new os reload to my server.. my old hard disk is connected to my server as a second driver i have got some files to move my first hard driver.. but i can't see my home folder.. second hd mount on mnt/sdc1
when i do this
[root@server3 sdc1]# dir
aquota.user grub lost+found System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL
config-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL.img message System.map-2.6.9-42.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp
config-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp.img message.ja System.map-2.6.9-42.ELsmp
config-2.6.9-42.EL initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img quota.user vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL
config-2.6.9-42.ELsmp initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp
where is my home folder
I want to run a server from my home, so I find this provider:
[url]
and the plan is FastAccess 6MB
so with the plan comes a static IP and I asked theyr support and they say YES , I cant run my own server
so here is my question: is that a good idea and what about the speed?
Web hosting from home,
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a home network as described bellow on the picture (It's in Portuguese but I guess you'll manage to understand it).
My Network Scheme
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I have a domain (let's say abc.com) hosted in AFRAID which is updated by my router since
I have a dynamic IP. I want to have different sub-domains redirected to different computers, for example:[url]redirects to my Desktop computer
[url]redirects to my Laptop 1
My Linksys WRT54GL Router is running Tomato firmware and my Fonera Router is running DD-WRT firmware.
Since I do NOT have a static IP is it possible to make this?
I already have a web server hosting around 70 web sites with FastHosts who charge me around £350 per month. I am a one man band and looking to cut monthly costs. On my web server with FastHosts, I have around 6 IP addresses all used for specific purposes such as SSL and public web sites and all works just fine.
I have just purchased a fast 8mb BT Network Business broadband connection at home along with 13 static IP addresses and built an office on my land that is secure. I want to host my own servers here on the premises that gives my clients the same services they currently get but without me having to pay £350 per month.
BT now tell me that the router they provided cannot route more than 1 IP address to the same machine. The router can only route 1 IP address to 1 PC. This means to achive what I already have would mean purchasing several servers and hosting clients web sites on an individual server.
I have a Windows 2003 server that I know can host all the sites I need including secure and public from one machine. I also know that each secure web site requires it's own IP address and I have those from BT.
Have you any ideas if there are any routers out there that work on broadband connections that can forward more than 1 IP address to the same computer and still work just fine with the BT set-up that I have?
