Home Server to Serve Websites & Files

Anyone know how hard it would be to set up a server to host a website, and to send links to clients of videos to view the project I am working on?

I would also like to have it serve my domain name email. I have a computer with the following I would like to set up for the server. I think I got to install Windows Server on it. Is that correct?

There is a local company that said it would cost me $10,000 to have them do it.

AMD X2 4200 Processor
Asus A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard
2 500gb Western Digital Hard Drives
4GB Corsair Memory
Don't know if the rest matters. CD-Rom/DVD/Video/ So On...

Thanks for any help.

i don't know what is the situation where you live but usualy isp providers frown upon hosting servers on your home line.

why don't you just rent a virtual server from an isp and buid your site there and if traffic demands it rent a dedicated server?

I think you're better off to just get yourself some good web hosting, it's not all that expensive.

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Originally Posted by S!X

I think you're better off to just get yourself some good web hosting, it's not all that expensive.

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The only thing that scars me is the computers now go through Outlook and have all there emails with that. The email is being accessed from a local computer company we use, and they are using there servers for the emails. If I go with the web server online I could keep the same email names but would I loose all my current emails that are stored on that server, or is there a way to back them up?

Thanks for the help!

Apache+php+mysql
No need for windows server. Can install apache to windows xp/vista/linux.
Not sure about which program for the smtp server though, you'll have to google that.

Give Xampp a try. As rossco said there is no need to use windows server. The newest Xampp windows installer is very easy to install (pretty much click, click, finish) and contains:

The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

Also many add-ons can be got and there is a "lite" version containing only:

XAMPP Lite is a very reduced version of XAMPP with Apache 2.2.6 + PHP 5.2.5 + MySQL 5.0.51 + phpMyAdmin 2.11.3 + OpenSSL 0.9.8g + SQLite 2.8.15. For lovers! For the lite versions exist no upgrades or addons. XAMPP Lite is an only "Take-Run-Delete-Forget-it" package.

But since you want it to serve your domain name email I would suggest the full Distro as Mercury mail is included and it "Includes POP3, SMTP, IMAP modules".

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html

Or
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

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Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun

Give Xampp a try. As rossco said there is no need to use windows server. The newest Xampp windows installer is very easy to install (pretty much click, click, finish) and contains:

The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. This version contains: Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.

Also many add-ons can be got and there is a "lite" version containing only:

XAMPP Lite is a very reduced version of XAMPP with Apache 2.2.6 + PHP 5.2.5 + MySQL 5.0.51 + phpMyAdmin 2.11.3 + OpenSSL 0.9.8g + SQLite 2.8.15. For lovers! For the lite versions exist no upgrades or addons. XAMPP Lite is an only "Take-Run-Delete-Forget-it" package.

But since you want it to serve your domain name email I would suggest the full Distro as Mercury mail is included and it "Includes POP3, SMTP, IMAP modules".

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html

Or
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

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That Looks Awesome!!! I'll give it a try for sure. Thanks for the help. I really appreaciate it.

Thanks Again

Is this machine going to be a dedicated box for serving a site with video content ?

how many people will be accessing the site and how big are the videos ?

what kinda bandwidth do you have where your thinking of placing the box ?

If your just making static sites that stream video without needing mysql then you can pretty much saturate a T1 connection with a pentium 1 166mhz machine.

postfix on linux is the way to go for email by the way.