you might take a look at this site for learning to setup your own web server: http://www.dslwebserver.com/
It helped me a lot. Norm Higgs http://forbiddenpc.com https://www.linkedin.com/e/fpf/4018099 ----- Original Message ----- From: "dave fales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: hi > do you know any web sights that is a basic one on people who run there own servers and what is what and how to do stuff were did you learn by reading books web sights which I really want to get back into computers and would like to build my own server to make thing s easier for my home office and has I said evenly host my own web sight. besides size is physically a server computer built different from a regular every day computer has I said on this gateway i don't know if it was built to be a server or just used has one but built to be a regular computer I know has far has towers go this thing is much higher and I can see how it has spots to put about 8 drives. also any one else have your own network and have any pictures. > > Ok, 1U and 4U are just shorthand, to describe the thicknesses of the > individual computers and other appliances in a rack. I think, off the > top of my head, that 1U represents about 1 3/4" of height. > > Looking at the rack in the photo, and starting at the bottom... > > The thin 1U at the bottom is a SuperMicro server, dual PIII 1,000 MHz > CPU's, and 1 gig RAM, named supermicro.robertwittig.net. It is home to > four websites, robertwittig.com, robertwittig.net, robertwittig.org, and > no-friction-cafe.com, and handles email for those four domains. It is > running OpenBSD 3.9 operating system. > > The 1U server above it, is not running... it is a back-up computer, that > is configured the same as supermicro.robertwittig.com, and can be put > on-line when needed, if/when the main server requires maintenance. > > The white 4U computer above it is a Desktop machine, running FreeBSD 6.0 > at the moment, but with removable hard drive cages, it also runs an > OpenBSD Desktop installation. Basically, it is a 'practice box', where I > test things before putting them 'live' on a working machine, and for > learning and studying things. > > Above that, sits a small 1U power panel, to protect against power > surges. Also, on the floor behind the rack, is a UPS (Uninterruptable > Power Supply) so that the servers and other machines can be shut down > properly, in the event of a power failure. > > On top of the power panel, is a 1U Compaq KVM switch, so that I can > control the array of computers from a single Keyboard, Video array, and > Mouse. > > Above that, the blue Netgear ethernet hub, to connect all the computers > to the Internet... there is a single cable running up to the attic > workshop from the DSL modem/router, which is in my office, downstairs, > along with my two main computers... this Red Hat machine I am typing on > now, and a Windows 2000 Graphics Workstation. > > Above that, the black 4U machine, is a Windows 2000 file server, and is > connected to the Compaq SCSI array. I picked that up, along with about > 50 SCSI drives, when the University of Chicago was upgrading their > servers last winter, for the cost of carfare down there and back, and > the muscle to lug the huge, heavy suitcase-with-wheels across Chicago on > public transit in the dead of winter. > > The Skeletek frame cost me $90.00 on eBay, from a store here in Chicago. > > -- > -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ > http://robertwittig.net/ > http://robertwittig.org/ > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
