[thelist] Hosting at Home

Hershel Robinson hershelr at netvision.net.il
Wed Nov 23 05:58:34 CST 2005


I have a fixed IP and I have a (I think) good router with a firewall. 
It's a Netopia Model 3387W-ENT [1]. I run Apache on a Windows box for 
local testing and so I know it a bit. I am in a wild and crazy mood and 
I am considering the possibility of setting up a xAMP server in my house 
and putting there a website.

I might build a Linux box or I might use my existing Windows server. I 
know little about Linux put I understand that to build a simple LAMP 
server can be fairly easy these days.

The site I will put there will be extremely low-traffic. I am aware that 
some people do such things sometimes, that is, build their own home servers.

Something tells me that this is foolhardy however and if I have little 
experience with servers and firewalls, it is not wise to open even a 
single port of mine and let the world into my LAN. Maybe someone will 
talk me out of this?

Thanks,
Hershel

[1] http://www.netopia.com/support/resources/option_3387went.html



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