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home servers
« on: March 08, 2011, 08:42:05 PM »
I was wondering i have some old acer desktops laying around that are 4gb ram and 400gb hardrive
how hard would it be to turn one of them into a server
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Re: home servers
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2011, 09:00:00 PM »
What do you want the server to do?
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Re: home servers
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2011, 09:00:44 PM »
was thinking of hosting at least my sites and maybe my wife's
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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2011, 09:04:28 PM »
The server will be able to host them without a problem what's your upload speed?
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Re: home servers
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2011, 09:10:27 PM »
did a speed test and it was 17.41 Mbps
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Re: home servers
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2011, 09:16:25 PM »
That's a decent upload speed, you need to check your ISP policy some don't allow running of servers on non-business account.
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Re: home servers
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2011, 09:18:30 PM »
yeah i will have to check with comcast first thanks
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Re: home servers
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2011, 09:31:00 PM »
If you still want to go ahead you will need to pick an OS Bigguy uses Ubuntu.
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Re: home servers
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2011, 09:39:19 PM »
ok cool  but it has windows vista would all that have to erased
kinda noob but this is something i always wanted to do
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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2011, 09:44:28 PM »
If you choose a new OS then it would need to be re-formatted, if you want to run vista you could download xampp and use that
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Re: home servers
« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2011, 09:48:54 PM »
ok awesome so 1 program could run everything.
What other then the os and program would i need.
Should i unistall all the unneccesary programs.
Not doing this right away just getting an idea
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Re: home servers
« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2011, 09:57:44 PM »
It depends on what you are serving if its a php based site then you need:
- Web browser - Apache
- Database software - MySQL
- PHP

xampp configures all the programs you need for an easy install.
You will also need a firewall and to configure port forwarding from your router.
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Re: home servers
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2011, 07:58:45 AM »
ok cool i'm going to have to research this more.Seems a bit scary to me but i still want to try it
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Re: home servers
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2011, 05:27:36 PM »
how hard is ubuntu to set up
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Re: home servers
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2011, 06:32:53 PM »
Its not very hard it can just be a bit tricky.
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Re: home servers
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2011, 06:42:34 PM »
okay thanks still undecided.Mainly scared   ::)
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Re: home servers
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2011, 07:02:23 PM »
Dive in and see how it goes, if you don't start you'll never learn :)
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