RE: [cinjug-users] server hosting at home

["Hudson, Loren \(GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE, US\)" <loren.hudson@xxxxxx>]

Abdul,

 

My last company did all of their hosting in a residence, which was nice.  We had two servers (staging and live), and we had complete administrative control over them, so when I needed to install jdk, I could.  we hosted multiple domains, and we used dyndns.org to administer them.  Most of our domains were subdomains of our main .com domain, so the IP management was easy.  We would add the subdomain to our domain on dyndns.org.  It got to a point where I was bringing up and taking down domains daily. 

 

Once, we did have to take over someone else's domain, but since we were running static IP (Roadrunner), we just had them set it to point to us.

 

Anyways, what we used was:

Fedora Core 5

Apache2

MySQL

PHP/Rails

The JDK was used to compile custom java clients before sending them to the user.  It wasn't used for a webapp. 

 

I personally recommend Debian.  They just had a new release this month.  Fedora will have a release next month.  Enter the linux distro flamewars.  I like debian because all of the package management is done for me by apt.  Fedora has the same functionality, called yum.  Also, both projects are popular enough that you can find something on google for the more weird problems.  I just installed the new version of Debian last night (4.0 "etch") and it was very painless. 

 

I like MySQL mainly because of phpMyAdmin.  PMA gives a smooth (if slow) web interface to your MySQL databases.

 

Go ahead and contact me if you have any more questions, or want to start a flamewar.  Or if you're just feeling lonely.

 

Good Luck,

 

Mike Hudson

MDW - MESA/Java

Sogeti Consultant

GE AE, Evendale, Ohio

loren.hudson@xxxxxx

Desk: 513-243-3663

Dialcomm: 3-3663

Cell:  513-546-4166

 

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From: Abdul Habra [mailto:ahabra@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 6:24 PM
To: CinJug
Subject: [cinjug-users] server hosting at home

This may not be the right group for this question, but perhaps some of you have this done before.

 

I have several web sites hosted as shared plans at a hosting company, and now I am planning to add another one.

 

When I did the math, I found that it will be much cheaper if I host them on a server at home, and just upgrade my internet service to something with better upload speed.

 

I looked into using a dedicated server plan, but I think I can do much better per $.

 

To start, I want to keep it as simple as possible:

 

1. A free OS:  I prefer linux (solaris is an option):  any preference? Why? Security concerns?
2. db: MySql (PostSql is an option).
3. tomcat or jetty: I am going to run several domains at the same web server. Any gotchas with virtual hosting in tomcat or jetty? I prefer Tomcat because I know it better and I can find more docs about it, but I will listen to opposing views.

 

I plan to do IP-based virtual hosting. I can see how to do it with Tomcat, but the network interface setup is my weak point, I am not a net admin guy, so I will appreciate any pointers, links, or suggestions.

 

Thank You,
Abdul Habra

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