Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
Matthew Daubney wrote: Ok lads and ladies, I've been giving this some thought now. I can't afford a new server machine, and probably shouldn't be running this monster 24/7. Digging around, in my price range is a Linksys NSLU2 (about £60..) which can be reflashed with Debian. I run a NSLU2 for my main internet facing machine at home, installed using two flash discs (1GB 2GB). It functions as a mail gateway (postfix) relaying to my other server, handles internal DNS and DHCP (dnsmasq). I use dropbear for SSH rather than openssh and run it on a non standard port, I also run fail2ban on it, and munin monitoring (although this is hacked so its started by cron at the appropriate times rather than consuming precious memory constantly). It is probably slightly overloaded, I intend to purchase another to offload some tasks. But it handles all this fairly nicely, aptitude is a bit painful to use but it does the job eventually. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers Update
Daniel Lamb wrote: Why not ask around family and friends? Surely someone will have an old laptop or even old pc which is less power hungry. To be honest I wouldn’t be over bothered about the energy (I say that as someone who provides IT support to an energy company) as there is plenty and its not a lot of money, and what you could do is run that then wait a bit to buy a cheap laptop or less power hungry pc as one will come up. Obviously the green people won't like this so I'm sorry. Regards, Daniel Hey all, Thought I would pass on an update. I found an old laptop that I had been raiding for parts that just needed a new HDD to make it work as an acceptable server. After a trying time of both feisty and gutsy telling me that the processor was too old for the kernel, I finally managed to get the i386 kernel installed and working. Hopefully this will keep the leccy bill down a bit!! Thanks very much for all your suggestions and ideas. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
On 03/10/2007, Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Harrison wrote: I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com M. Ok lads and ladies, I've been giving this some thought now. I can't afford a new server machine, and probably shouldn't be running this monster 24/7. Digging around, in my price range is a Linksys NSLU2 (about £60..) which can be reflashed with Debian. I reckon that this would be enough (with a SATA to USB case for one of the drives) to do what I need the server to do... would this be a better solution? I had a look on ebay at laptops but most of them seem to be a con and not have HDD's/Power Supplies, both of which are relativley expensive. I'm open to any idea's on better solutions too! HBS [http://www.hbs.uk.com/] is the place I got my cheap laptop from. I'm not sure if they have a nationwide contract with local services but they do with Lincoln City Council. Might be worth asking your local Council for a contact. Philip -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a laptop with a broken screen as my home server. Got it for free from a family member but they are dirt cheap and fleabay. Its got 80GB storage, integrated UPS, (very) low power consumption and with speedstep enabled on the CPU and laptop-mode enabled on the hard disk its very quiet. Ideal home server even if I say so myself ;). Of course it can't do stuff like be a MythTV backend but it streams media happily enough. Oh and it has wifi built in so I can put it anywhere with a power outlet. (on a shelf somewhere or in a cupboard. I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com M. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
On 03/10/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a laptop with a broken screen as my home server. Got it for free from a family member but they are dirt cheap and fleabay. Its got 80GB storage, integrated UPS, (very) low power consumption and with speedstep enabled on the CPU and laptop-mode enabled on the hard disk its very quiet. Ideal home server even if I say so myself ;). Of course it can't do stuff like be a MythTV backend but it streams media happily enough. Oh and it has wifi built in so I can put it anywhere with a power outlet. (on a shelf somewhere or in a cupboard. I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com Talking of laptops for servers, I purchased an old and quite battered Satellite Pro laptop from a local place that deals with redundant City Council equipment. I paid £50 for it and use it to run Ubuntu server 6.06 LTS. I've had it about a year now, it runs my cron jobs [the main reason I bought it] and SSH server so that I can connect to my home network when at work. It's battery holds just enough charge to keep it going through a power cut -- which beats having to get an expensive UPS. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
We use old laptops as servers for some tasks, mostly IBM ThinkPads because they're very well supported in Ubuntu and because they last for years. You don't get the performance you'd expect from a full-size unit and expansion/redundancy options are limited, but in this context (home networks) they're ideal. Power savings have already been mentioned, but note that you can also run an average laptop from AA batteries, solar panels, wind turbines etc, making mains power more a convenience than a necessity. Regards, Tom Kris Douglas wrote: On 03/10/2007, *Philip Newborough* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/10/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a laptop with a broken screen as my home server. Got it for free from a family member but they are dirt cheap and fleabay. Its got 80GB storage, integrated UPS, (very) low power consumption and with speedstep enabled on the CPU and laptop-mode enabled on the hard disk its very quiet. Ideal home server even if I say so myself ;). Of course it can't do stuff like be a MythTV backend but it streams media happily enough. Oh and it has wifi built in so I can put it anywhere with a power outlet. (on a shelf somewhere or in a cupboard. I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com http://www.linitx.com Talking of laptops for servers, I purchased an old and quite battered Satellite Pro laptop from a local place that deals with redundant City Council equipment. I paid £50 for it and use it to run Ubuntu server 6.06 LTS. I've had it about a year now, it runs my cron jobs [the main reason I bought it] and SSH server so that I can connect to my home network when at work. It's battery holds just enough charge to keep it going through a power cut -- which beats having to get an expensive UPS. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ I've always thought about that, think of the money you could save and the space you could save if you used laptops as servers, you can stack them 4 high and have all you need. They have batteries for backup and you can get 250gig drives for them, what more could you need? Oh yea, integrated display , keyboard and mouse. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net http://www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
Can you tell me what I can get, on a CD or DVD that I can load straight onto a bare computer that will work without any or to many problems? James. - Original Message - From: Tom Bamford To: British Ubuntu Talk Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers We use old laptops as servers for some tasks, mostly IBM ThinkPads because they're very well supported in Ubuntu and because they last for years. You don't get the performance you'd expect from a full-size unit and expansion/redundancy options are limited, but in this context (home networks) they're ideal. Power savings have already been mentioned, but note that you can also run an average laptop from AA batteries, solar panels, wind turbines etc, making mains power more a convenience than a necessity. Regards, Tom Kris Douglas wrote: On 03/10/2007, Philip Newborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/10/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a laptop with a broken screen as my home server. Got it for free from a family member but they are dirt cheap and fleabay. Its got 80GB storage, integrated UPS, (very) low power consumption and with speedstep enabled on the CPU and laptop-mode enabled on the hard disk its very quiet. Ideal home server even if I say so myself ;). Of course it can't do stuff like be a MythTV backend but it streams media happily enough. Oh and it has wifi built in so I can put it anywhere with a power outlet. (on a shelf somewhere or in a cupboard. I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com Talking of laptops for servers, I purchased an old and quite battered Satellite Pro laptop from a local place that deals with redundant City Council equipment. I paid £50 for it and use it to run Ubuntu server 6.06 LTS. I've had it about a year now, it runs my cron jobs [the main reason I bought it] and SSH server so that I can connect to my home network when at work. It's battery holds just enough charge to keep it going through a power cut -- which beats having to get an expensive UPS. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ I've always thought about that, think of the money you could save and the space you could save if you used laptops as servers, you can stack them 4 high and have all you need. They have batteries for backup and you can get 250gig drives for them, what more could you need? Oh yea, integrated display , keyboard and mouse. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
On 03/10/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me what I can get, on a CD or DVD that I can load straight onto a bare computer that will work without any or to many problems? James. - Original Message - *From:* Tom Bamford [EMAIL PROTECTED] *To:* British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com *Sent:* Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:11 PM *Subject:* Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers We use old laptops as servers for some tasks, mostly IBM ThinkPads because they're very well supported in Ubuntu and because they last for years. You don't get the performance you'd expect from a full-size unit and expansion/redundancy options are limited, but in this context (home networks) they're ideal. Power savings have already been mentioned, but note that you can also run an average laptop from AA batteries, solar panels, wind turbines etc, making mains power more a convenience than a necessity. Regards, Tom Kris Douglas wrote: On 03/10/2007, Philip Newborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/10/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a laptop with a broken screen as my home server. Got it for free from a family member but they are dirt cheap and fleabay. Its got 80GB storage, integrated UPS, (very) low power consumption and with speedstep enabled on the CPU and laptop-mode enabled on the hard disk its very quiet. Ideal home server even if I say so myself ;). Of course it can't do stuff like be a MythTV backend but it streams media happily enough. Oh and it has wifi built in so I can put it anywhere with a power outlet. (on a shelf somewhere or in a cupboard. I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com Talking of laptops for servers, I purchased an old and quite battered Satellite Pro laptop from a local place that deals with redundant City Council equipment. I paid £50 for it and use it to run Ubuntu server 6.06 LTS. I've had it about a year now, it runs my cron jobs [the main reason I bought it] and SSH server so that I can connect to my home network when at work. It's battery holds just enough charge to keep it going through a power cut -- which beats having to get an expensive UPS. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ I've always thought about that, think of the money you could save and the space you could save if you used laptops as servers, you can stack them 4 high and have all you need. They have batteries for backup and you can get 250gig drives for them, what more could you need? Oh yea, integrated display , keyboard and mouse. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Ok, first, That was rather big and bold... Secondly...if you want to ask a question please start a new thread. Thirdly, Ubuntu might work on your machine, but how can we tell you if you don't tell us what kind of computer you run? What are your hardware specs/info? -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
snip Just something to consider; If you can find a lower spec PC, (1 Ghz era is plenty) it would be better; your specs are very high for the occasional bit of traffic. That kind of PC will idle around 180 watts, running that 24/7 will add £32.25 [1] a year to your electricity bill. [1] http://www.ukpower.co.uk/running-costs-elec.asp I think your sums are wrong there chap... I had a figure of about £60/yr in mind for my 60w Shuttle server... The website comes to a figure of £150/yr for a 180w server... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
LeeGroups wrote: snip Just something to consider; If you can find a lower spec PC, (1 Ghz era is plenty) it would be better; your specs are very high for the occasional bit of traffic. That kind of PC will idle around 180 watts, running that 24/7 will add £32.25 [1] a year to your electricity bill. [1] http://www.ukpower.co.uk/running-costs-elec.asp I think your sums are wrong there chap... I had a figure of about £60/yr in mind for my 60w Shuttle server... The website comes to a figure of £150/yr for a 180w server... Hmmm. maybe it's time to invest in that broken laptop I never dreamed of.. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
Mark Harrison wrote: I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com M. Ok lads and ladies, I've been giving this some thought now. I can't afford a new server machine, and probably shouldn't be running this monster 24/7. Digging around, in my price range is a Linksys NSLU2 (about £60..) which can be reflashed with Debian. I reckon that this would be enough (with a SATA to USB case for one of the drives) to do what I need the server to do... would this be a better solution? I had a look on ebay at laptops but most of them seem to be a con and not have HDD's/Power Supplies, both of which are relativley expensive. I'm open to any idea's on better solutions too! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
Why not ask around family and friends? Surely someone will have an old laptop or even old pc which is less power hungry. To be honest I wouldnt be over bothered about the energy (I say that as someone who provides IT support to an energy company) as there is plenty and its not a lot of money, and what you could do is run that then wait a bit to buy a cheap laptop or less power hungry pc as one will come up. Obviously the green people won't like this so I'm sorry. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Daubney Sent: 03 October 2007 23:51 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers Mark Harrison wrote: I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully! For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com M. Ok lads and ladies, I've been giving this some thought now. I can't afford a new server machine, and probably shouldn't be running this monster 24/7. Digging around, in my price range is a Linksys NSLU2 (about £60..) which can be reflashed with Debian. I reckon that this would be enough (with a SATA to USB case for one of the drives) to do what I need the server to do... would this be a better solution? I had a look on ebay at laptops but most of them seem to be a con and not have HDD's/Power Supplies, both of which are relativley expensive. I'm open to any idea's on better solutions too! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
Hi, the servers section on http://ubuntuforums.com is pretty good for those sort of questions. I also run a file/webserver off virgin and it works pretty well. Ubuntu has a built in firewall but if you want to make any configurations to it then firestarter is a good gui for your firewall. I use postfix for outgoing mail because it's very easy to set up and have my domains point to my ip. I buy my UK domains from http://123-reg.co.uk and my .com domains from http://nameroute.com and use http://zoneedit.com as my dns provider. I think it's important to restrict access to certain folders on your server. For example you dont want random people being able to go to http://www.yourname.com/phpmyadmin. For my ftp server I use gprofftpd which is a version of proftpd that has a nice gui. You'll never have a fully secure system but if you use the advice given by people here and on the forums then you should be fine. --- Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've had a machine running as an ad-hoc web/file servery thing across my home internet connection (shared 20Mb Virgin Media stuffs (MB? I always get the upper/lower case B's confused)) and have considered turning the machine solely over to this after getting my nice shiny new dell laptop. If I turned it to this permanantly (as I hope to!) I'd obviously need a bit more info on setting it up re:security and suggested programs (I'd end up largley running Apache/PHP/mod_mono as I'm considering going into web design and it'd be good practice to get used to as many languages as possible). I'd also be considering using it as a mailserver, but have never set one of these up, ever. So any advice on mail packages and the like would also be much appreciated!! The box itself is a 4GHz Hyperthreaded P4 with 1.5gb of RAM and 2*250gb hdd's (it also currently has 2 flatscreens, but it won't need them once it's been serverised!) Thanks very much (as usual) for any info! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
If its an internet connection it will be Mb (mega bits) not MB (mega bytes) 8 bits in a byte ergo 8 megabits in a megabyte. :] Oh, and your server - whats the power consumption on that thing!? On 10/1/07, Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've had a machine running as an ad-hoc web/file servery thing across my home internet connection (shared 20Mb Virgin Media stuffs (MB? I always get the upper/lower case B's confused)) and have considered turning the machine solely over to this after getting my nice shiny new dell laptop. If I turned it to this permanantly (as I hope to!) I'd obviously need a bit more info on setting it up re:security and suggested programs (I'd end up largley running Apache/PHP/mod_mono as I'm considering going into web design and it'd be good practice to get used to as many languages as possible). I'd also be considering using it as a mailserver, but have never set one of these up, ever. So any advice on mail packages and the like would also be much appreciated!! The box itself is a 4GHz Hyperthreaded P4 with 1.5gb of RAM and 2*250gb hdd's (it also currently has 2 flatscreens, but it won't need them once it's been serverised!) Thanks very much (as usual) for any info! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
John McCourt wrote: Hi, the servers section on http://ubuntuforums.com is pretty good for those sort of questions. I also run a file/webserver off virgin and it works pretty well. Ubuntu has a built in firewall but if you want to make any configurations to it then firestarter is a good gui for your firewall. I use postfix for outgoing mail because it's very easy to set up and have my domains point to my ip. I buy my UK domains from http://123-reg.co.uk and my .com domains from http://nameroute.com and use http://zoneedit.com as my dns provider. I think it's important to restrict access to certain folders on your server. For example you dont want random people being able to go to http://www.yourname.com/phpmyadmin. For my ftp server I use gprofftpd which is a version of proftpd that has a nice gui. You'll never have a fully secure system but if you use the advice given by people here and on the forums then you should be fine. --- Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've had a machine running as an ad-hoc web/file servery thing across my home internet connection (shared 20Mb Virgin Media stuffs (MB? I always get the upper/lower case B's confused)) and have considered turning the machine solely over to this after getting my nice shiny new dell laptop. If I turned it to this permanantly (as I hope to!) I'd obviously need a bit more info on setting it up re:security and suggested programs (I'd end up largley running Apache/PHP/mod_mono as I'm considering going into web design and it'd be good practice to get used to as many languages as possible). I'd also be considering using it as a mailserver, but have never set one of these up, ever. So any advice on mail packages and the like would also be much appreciated!! The box itself is a 4GHz Hyperthreaded P4 with 1.5gb of RAM and 2*250gb snip Just something to consider; If you can find a lower spec PC, (1 Ghz era is plenty) it would be better; your specs are very high for the occasional bit of traffic. That kind of PC will idle around 180 watts, running that 24/7 will add £32.25 [1] a year to your electricity bill. [1] http://www.ukpower.co.uk/running-costs-elec.asp - Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
James Grabham wrote: If its an internet connection it will be Mb (mega bits) not MB (mega bytes) 8 bits in a byte ergo 8 megabits in a megabyte. :] Oh, and your server - whats the power consumption on that thing!? Unfortunatley at the moment I'm stuck with the boxes I have and this one happened to be my old gaming desktop. The other boxes I have would be fine as a webserver, but pants as a fileserver as they all have very small (4gb) HD's. The gaming box has SATA drives and the other ones are IDE so a swap around is a no go. If another lower spec box turns up then I'll nab it, but I can't afford to buy any new bits at the moment, so I'm stuck with what I have! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
Wait for the newest version of ubuntu server which will install all those features, for admin id use webmin. My advice for security would be make sure you setup a firewall and also make sure you have all the permissions on files shared on the web server set to the usual. Regards, daniel Original message From: Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1 Oct 2007 1:24pm -07:00 To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers Hey all, I've had a machine running as an ad-hoc web/file servery thing across my home internet connection (shared 20Mb Virgin Media stuffs (MB? I always get the upper/lower case B's confused)) and have considered turning the machine solely over to this after getting my nice shiny new dell laptop. If I turned it to this permanantly (as I hope to!) I'd obviously need a bit more info on setting it up re:security and suggested programs (I'd end up largley running Apache/PHP/mod_mono as I'm considering going into web design and it'd be good practice to get used to as many languages as possible). I'd also be considering using it as a mailserver, but have never set one of these up, ever. So any advice on mail packages and the like would also be much appreciated!! The box itself is a 4GHz Hyperthreaded P4 with 1.5gb of RAM and 2*250gb hdd's (it also currently has 2 flatscreens, but it won't need them once it's been serverised!) Thanks very much (as usual) for any info! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
