Can I do web hosting from my home on my Linux box, I should be accessible this web server over Internet?

I am wondering also which service (cable or DSL) to buy to set up my
home connection for web server up and running. Since I want to run a
Apache webserver on my Linux box. All the DSL services are using
dynamic IP, which prevent my home web site from seeing over the
Internet. If it is Dynamic IP, if there is any power failure and
PC/Modem/switch gets reboot, then my IP address might change, How can I
get static IP address?. Does anybody knows what the best deal to set up
a home web server with consistant Internet connection? I have to go for
web hosting service to host my personal site. Anybody knows what good
web hostings that support linux with mysql?.


Thanks

On 2005-01-11, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Apache webserver on my Linux box. All the DSL services are using
> dynamic IP

Not ALL of them, probably the cheapest. Anyway, you can use something
like dyndns to point a domain name to your (dynamic) IP.

Be sure that your ISP T&C allow you to run your own web server.

> How can I get static IP address?

Buy one.

Davide

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On 11 Jan 2005 04:51:47 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am wondering also which service (cable or DSL) to buy to set up my
> home connection for web server up and running. Since I want to run a
> Apache webserver on my Linux box. All the DSL services are using
> dynamic IP, which prevent my home web site from seeing over the
> Internet. If it is Dynamic IP, if there is any power failure and
> PC/Modem/switch gets reboot, then my IP address might change, How can I
> get static IP address?. Does anybody knows what the best deal to set up
> a home web server with consistant Internet connection? I have to go for
> web hosting service to host my personal site. Anybody knows what good
> web hostings that support linux with mysql?.

I run apache on a dynamic adsl IP (mostly for my own use and learning). I
use www.no-ip.com for dynamic DNS (to map static names to dynamic IP) and
run their DNS update client from /etc/ppp/ip-up (which runs automatically
whenever pppoe gets an IP). So I can always find my home box to ssh to it
or grab something from apache. Some ISPs block incoming port 80.

However, if you intend to eventually do anything like e-mail directly, it
helps to have a static IP, since many mail filters reject mail from
dynamic IPs. Some ISPs block outgoing port 25 other than to their own
smtp (due to worms/trojans).

For info on ISPs see http://www.broadbandreports.com/ alias
http://www.dslreports.com/

There are many low cost web hosts available that would be faster than any
home DSL/cable connection. Another alternative is a Unix shell account
like http://www.freeshell.org/ (alias sdf.lonestar.org) which includes
web space and has options for setting up your own domain.

Actually I am doing for my personal purpose, I want to create my home
page and I want to run that web site on my machine at home
(www.myname.com) and I want to link some of the popular web
sites/places/people on my own website, also I want to have my e-mail
account ((E-Mail Removed)), also I want to create some e-mail accounts
for my family members, so that I can access these e-mail from any where
on the world over the web. If I run these services from third party,
then I have to pay for web hosting, design, also for running my web
site up and running, I don't want to do that since that costs more
money, I registred my own web site (www.myname.com) and I want to run
that site from my Linux machine.

For launching that site, I am collecting some info, if somebody have
some clues, provide me. Thanks in advance.

Have you regestered your domain yet?

there are lots of companies that will host sites (including mine) for a
fee. Hosting is separate from designing/building the site.

And email is separate from that.

Until you get your domain regertered, you are not really going to be on
the web.

Ed Prochak
Magic Interface, Ltd
440-498-3700

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:01:16 -0800, tvnaidu wrote:

> Actually I am doing for my personal purpose, I want to create my home
> page and I want to run that web site on my machine at home
> (www.myname.com) and I want to link some of the popular web
> sites/places/people on my own website, also I want to have my e-mail
> account ((E-Mail Removed)), also I want to create some e-mail accounts
> for my family members, so that I can access these e-mail from any where
> on the world over the web. If I run these services from third party,
> then I have to pay for web hosting, design, also for running my web
> site up and running, I don't want to do that since that costs more
> money, I registred my own web site (www.myname.com) and I want to run
> that site from my Linux machine.
>
> For launching that site, I am collecting some info, if somebody have
> some clues, provide me. Thanks in advance.

What you're proposing is not difficult, merely time-consuming. I suggest
you break it up into small, manageable pieces.

1) Web server. Apache. Get the docs, learn it.

2) Email. OK, hosting your own email is a major, major, major PITA. You
need to configure sendmail/postfix/whatever. You need to decide if you're
going to spam-block; and if so, what you're going to use.
Spamassassin/dspam/whatever. How about virus scanning? Clamav?
Something proprietary? How are you going to tie them all together?
procmail? amavis? Something else? OK, now you got your email getting to
your machine. So are you going to use webmail/pop/imap to collect your
email? If POP/Imap, are you going to use qpopper? Dovecot? which
webmail interface are you going to use? How do you configure
php/python/perl on your apache web server? Lots of studying (and lots of
interesting learning if you're so inclined.) Did I say email is a major
PITA? :-)

3) DNS. You will have to contract with someone to provide DNS services
so people can find your web site. Will you also run local DNS?

Yes, I just registered it. Otherthan that I didn't do anything yet. I
am collecting info on how to do other things from site
build/launch/e-mail, all these things from home.

I think I need local DNS, I have 6 machines, I need to access my own
docs on home.xyz.com, these are all my local docs, if I type
home.xyz.com, it should go to my local website, also if I type
www.xyz.com, then I should get my website which can be seen from
outside world. Thanks.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:14:19 -0800, tvnaidu wrote:

> I think I need local DNS, I have 6 machines, I need to access my own
> docs on home.xyz.com, these are all my local docs, if I type
> home.xyz.com, it should go to my local website, also if I type
> www.xyz.com, then I should get my website which can be seen from
> outside world. Thanks.

You need both. Really. In order to register your real domain, you need 2
external DNS providers.

Then you should set up your internal DNS to serve the internal network.
You *must not* use addresses like xxx.mydomain.com unless you also have
fixed IPs for those.... You should set up an internal domain (I use
mydomain.lan) and set up DNS for those. Your DNS server should forward
queries for the outside world to your ISP provider.

I recommend that you get 'DNS and BIND' from O'Reilly; you also probably
want the DHCP book as well.

Like I said, lots of learning to do.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Actually I am doing for my personal purpose, I want to create my home
> page and I want to run that web site on my machine at home
> (www.myname.com) and I want to link some of the popular web
> sites/places/people on my own website, also I want to have my e-mail
> account ((E-Mail Removed)), also I want to create some e-mail accounts
> for my family members, so that I can access these e-mail from any where
> on the world over the web. If I run these services from third party,
> then I have to pay for web hosting, design, also for running my web
> site up and running, I don't want to do that since that costs more
> money, I registred my own web site (www.myname.com) and I want to run
> that site from my Linux machine.
>
> For launching that site, I am collecting some info, if somebody have
> some clues, provide me. Thanks in advance.

Many ISPs include web space with your account. For example, my ISP allows 9
mail accounts, each of which come with 10 MB of web space. Also, I believe
www.myname.com is already in use.