Setting Up A Server

[nightsky]

Hi,
Anyone in here setup their own webserver?
What are the considerations for the os platform? What are the considerations and approx. costs for constent conection.
Thank you

[Statica]

Hi Nightsky:

Considerations for OS are aplenty. some factors that you should really research are:
(a) Load number of clients you might serve up
(b) hardware you have
(c) $$ you wish to spend
(d) Server machine load vis, is this a standalone webserver or is it going to run more stuff?
(e) <FONT SIZE=+3>S E C U R I T Y</FONT>
(f) feature you wish to include: databases, scripting support - say Java, PHP, etc etc to name a few
(g) Level of expertise of the people you are hosting out to .. cant expect M$ users to understand anything but..

These are just some considerations.

Based on this, my recommendation that give it a 5 star rating on all of the above are:
- BSD [FreeBSD] for the OS -its free, its secure, its better than sliced bread for servers
- Linux for the OS -its free, its secure, its almost as good as BSD for servers; why I would rate it lower than BSD is simply cos u have to be careful with the amt of crap Linux now ships with, if you can install it well then this is great esp. considering a lot more h/w support

and of course your daemon is Apache and nothing but http://www.pcmech.com/ubb/smile.gif Add in PHP and mysql and then watch it rock!!!

HTH

[Statica]

Re: Cost of connxn .. it varies .. a lot .. check with local ppl in your area