I've been running an old Dual P2-400 server at home for several years now and works fine for what I need. It has been invaluable as an educational tool during that time.
Some day soon, I plan to wipe it and do a fresh install of (probably) Debian, but in the mean time, I'm still running RedHat 7.2 from way back. No problems accessing port 80 or port 22 on roadrunner. I run phpnuke, Agatha (streaming MP3 server), gallery (web-based image viewer), and a few other miscellaneous web-based utilities. Not sure about blog software, but a search of freshmeat.net should return some viable options (including all previously mentioned utilities). For DNS, I use dyndns.org and pay the $9.95/year for .dnsalias.net hostname. A utility runs on the box to automatically update the IP address when it changes. Good luck. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
