Setting up a home server

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Setting up a home server

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I know this is written up alot on the net, but for all those that have wondered can we start a thread on this with tips.

What the end result must be: Setting up a file hosting server, possibly running and hosting a website or a few, dependant on the hardware installed said as well - at home.

The purpose: To not use a hosting company

This can be done.
1. You need a static IP address, you can use dynamic, but you would need some DNS software that hunts the whole time and thus killing your little bandwidth you have and making it pointless to begin with.
2. Linux/Unix or Windows server - Linux because I find it's more widely supported for opensource apps.
3. Internet connection
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Feel free to add to the list of what is needed. I would like to get the networking guys involved. What Linux would you suggest.
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Everything hosted on home server. I have a static IP, that's no problem. If I want to host a website, small that is, just for testing purposes, what else would I need?
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Ubuntu server edition is free, i would go with that!
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This is really impractical though. Having a static IP at home is expensive, and having a machine host it is tedious. Rather just pay the 10 bucks or 20 bucks that hosting costs and avoid problems and costs :)
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As I said, it's purely out of interest sakes, no practicality intended.
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i suppose it maybe useful if you need access to files while away from home.
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DeathStrike wrote:i suppose it maybe useful if you need access to files while away from home.
Dropbox is a free 2gb cloud you can use for that
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Fish_man wrote:
DeathStrike wrote:i suppose it maybe useful if you need access to files while away from home.
Dropbox is a free 2gb cloud you can use for that
I use it and its brilliant. I share docs with my mates and its easy.
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DeathStrike wrote:i suppose it maybe useful if you need access to files while away from home.
That's something I didn't even think of. great for sharing P2P.
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octall wrote:That's something I didn't even think of. great for sharing P2P.
That word borders so close to piracy it is not even funny.. :roll: :twisted: :mrgreen:
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I've also thought about doing this... simple for experimental leaning. I actually successfully got a mail server running from home, although it didn’t like the DynDns…. If you tried to send to almost any email address it would get rejected. Has to have a static IP address. Although I know it definitely worked cause I managed to send to my one axxess address and reply… and it worked.
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garp wrote:I've also thought about doing this... simple for experimental leaning. I actually successfully got a mail server running from home, although it didn’t like the DynDns…. If you tried to send to almost any email address it would get rejected. Has to have a static IP address. Although I know it definitely worked cause I managed to send to my one axxess address and reply… and it worked.
It's exactly why I want to do this, curiosity and possibility
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