With the exception of my laptop (RH7.3), all my other machines were custom built, so there is no "brand name" for them (3 RH 7.3, and 1 RH 7.2). They all have AMD socket 7 processors (1 233Mhz, 3 500Mhz's). They all have a mixture of Kingston, All Components, and generic memory. All the IDE drives are IBM, and one of the machines has two Segate SCSI drives. Plextor burners, and Acer CD-ROMs. Asus and Abit motherboards. One Matrox (AGP), one Diamond (PCI), and two generic video cards (AGP). All of them have D-Link nic's. Most hardware runs fine, as long as you steer clear of intergrated motherboards with Intel chipsets, and WinModems.
As far as running your own webserver, you can do it a couple of ways.
Give the box a bogus IP (I use my birthdate followed by .1, .2, .3, etc.). Once you have apache installed, configed, and running, edit your hosts file (C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on WinNT / 2000, /etc/hosts on Linux) with the ip and name of the box....
99.99.99.1 myWebServer
Now the box which you edited the hosts file on will be able to hit the webserver (you can also do this with virtual hosts in apache).
Now, you can get a bit more complex, and run your own DNS machine, and make up your own domain names (but please set notify to "no" in your named.conf file for all your made up zones). I have my little network set up to where two of the 500Mhz machines are my primary and secondary DNS servers, the other 500Mhz machine is my gateway. I have a couple of domains which are hosted by someone else, but I keep mirrored (dev) sites of them here locally (on the gateway machine), and have zones set up on my DNS machines to point to them.
Viewable to the world Viewable to just my local network
www.by-tor.com www.by-tor.jcn
www.nichel.net www.nichel.jcn
But you don't need a domain to do this. I also run domains here locally with names that don't exist on the web, but with a zone file, I can access them locally.
The first way will be the easiest, and will work just fine (I'm only set up the second way because I like to tinker :)
Brian Healey wrote:
Has anyone set up a server for Home use?
-I want to be able to do web design, system administration, and some
database design.
Would you please share with me the specifications and/or recommendations you
have?
- i.e. Brand, Processor, memory, etc.
* I'd like to get a computer that doesn't have driver and swappable
component issues
For example I can run to Best buy and get a little E-Machine - price is
right, but Linux isn't supported, no drivers will be available, I'd rather
not try and 'bastard-ize' a machine that was only intended for Win Me....
Do you have domain name, or do you write a script to perpetuate you IP
address? - Any issues, concerns, legality, etc.
Thanks in Advance
-Brian
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