My Home Server

[Hyper]

Hello All

I have a old pc which I built from spare bits lying around the house.

Spec:

AMD Athlon 800mhz

512MB Ram

2Mb GFX Card (for silence, no fan)

20GB Samsung Spinpoint

I built it with the intention to use it for downloading overnight which it does anyway but I thought I could use it for other things. I have it programmed to start downloading at midnight and stop at 8am so it doesnt interrupt my internet connection and between these times it also runs a Ventrilo Voice Server. So its on 24/7 but I thought I could get more out of it.

So tonight I had an idea of testing my skills and trying to run a HTTP Server from it using my IP masked by plusnet. At the minute its totally basic but I just put that up to test it as I wasnt sure if it would work. Its running on port 80 so anyone can access it.

Anyway check it out, its 100% basic and was just something quick to make sure it was working:

http://samgarratt.plus.com/

Please let me know if you cant see it.

Once I am 100% certain its working properly I will begin working on a little profile for myself about my hobbys and pc 's.

Thanks, Sam

 

[Ham]

Worked fine here.

 

[Raging]

same here

 

[FragTek]

Works good here!

 

[Hyper]

Thanks for letting me know its working lads

I will get working on something a little more intresting

 

[FragTek]

Thanks for letting me know its working lads

I will get working on something a little more intresting

Sounds good mate, keep us updated with what you've got going on!

 

[NickS]

Works fine here m8

 

[Hyper]

Sounds good mate, keep us updated with what you've got going on!

Will do

 

[Hyper]

Does anyone know of any software than you can run on a http server so that it shows you the status of your pc for example how much hdd space it has free, cpu usage, memory usage etc etc. As I remember someone using it but cant remember who. So for example I could run it at http://samgarratt.plus.com/status

Thanks, Sam

 

[JN]

Hi Hyper, if you're running windows there's very few scripts that will do that.

Also i see you're running Abyss web server, which doesn't support PHP/ASP does it?

You're best bet would be to run Windows IIS server, and then find an ASP script that does what u want

 

[Dav0s]

run apache, then you can have php and mysql

 

[FragTek]

Give me a bit to think of the name of the software that monitors every aspect of your computer and reports it online... I will need to ask around to see if anyone I know remembers the name of it. It's a great little program!

 

[Hyper]

Give me a bit to think of the name of the software that monitors every aspect of your computer and reports it online... I will need to ask around to see if anyone I know remembers the name of it. It's a great little program!

Thanks Frag.

Is apache easy to setup and run as I like this one for its simplicity.

 

[Dav0s]

apache itself is pretty easy to install, but combining it with php and mysql on windows can be tough

try instaling something like Wamp which installs apache, mysql and php as a bundle and is very easy to maintain. of course if you dont plant to use php, then apache on its own should be fine.

 

[nathan]

if your running linux, use phpsysinfo. You should try the new ubuntu 6.06 server edition. even has a option to install a LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, PHP).

 

[FragTek]

WebTemp is the name of the program that I used to use, but I think I told you that at work yesterday IIRC LMK if you like it, it's pretty slick.