Techie Question
Apr. 22nd, 2003 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lostcarparkFor people who know stuff about routing and that sort of thing, I could use your help... everyone else might want to ignore this!
Okay, I'll be getting DSL soon (hopefully), and I'm thinking why should I pay for web-hosting when I've got a permanent connection to the internet, with a fixed IP address, and a computer that is always switched on?
The DSL gives me 512K down and 256K up. I'm guessing that most of my usage will be on the down channel, and most of the web usage will be on the up channel, so they shouldn't interfere with each other too much.
So I'm wondering... what are the issues I'm likely to face if I do this? Will I have problems with availability? Is it likely to all go horribly wrong? Is the telco likely to screw things up on me?
I'm also wondering what I should do on the server side. I have a slightly elderly PC running Red Hat at the moment, but I have a somewhat less elderly machine available, and have no problem spending some money to upgrade where necessary. I'm not crazy about some of the quirks of Red Hat, but not quite sure which distro to move to. I have a reasonable knowledge of what's going on under the Linux bonnet, but I'm a little vague on some of the specifics.
Now if I want to keep this thing up and running 99% of the time, it would be nice to use the extra box as a stand-by server. Even better if the two could cluster and share the load, but have either take over if anything goes wrong. However a stand-by server that the main one automatically backs up to would be fine.
If you think there's a book or two I should have, please make your recomendations. I usually get the information I need off the web, but if I'm running a live web server, I don't want to have the thing dead for a day because I skimped the price of a book.
There is also the issue of DNS serving, but I think I have a plan for that one.
Thanks for any help. I know some of you can do this sort of thing in your sleep. Oh, and don't be afraid to tell me if this is a very bad idea, and I should just stick to paid hosting.
Thanks guys (n'gals)!
Okay, I'll be getting DSL soon (hopefully), and I'm thinking why should I pay for web-hosting when I've got a permanent connection to the internet, with a fixed IP address, and a computer that is always switched on?
The DSL gives me 512K down and 256K up. I'm guessing that most of my usage will be on the down channel, and most of the web usage will be on the up channel, so they shouldn't interfere with each other too much.
So I'm wondering... what are the issues I'm likely to face if I do this? Will I have problems with availability? Is it likely to all go horribly wrong? Is the telco likely to screw things up on me?
I'm also wondering what I should do on the server side. I have a slightly elderly PC running Red Hat at the moment, but I have a somewhat less elderly machine available, and have no problem spending some money to upgrade where necessary. I'm not crazy about some of the quirks of Red Hat, but not quite sure which distro to move to. I have a reasonable knowledge of what's going on under the Linux bonnet, but I'm a little vague on some of the specifics.
Now if I want to keep this thing up and running 99% of the time, it would be nice to use the extra box as a stand-by server. Even better if the two could cluster and share the load, but have either take over if anything goes wrong. However a stand-by server that the main one automatically backs up to would be fine.
If you think there's a book or two I should have, please make your recomendations. I usually get the information I need off the web, but if I'm running a live web server, I don't want to have the thing dead for a day because I skimped the price of a book.
There is also the issue of DNS serving, but I think I have a plan for that one.
Thanks for any help. I know some of you can do this sort of thing in your sleep. Oh, and don't be afraid to tell me if this is a very bad idea, and I should just stick to paid hosting.
Thanks guys (n'gals)!
