Build Your Own Server

"Have you wanted a full-functionality web-server, media host, BitTorrent client and NAS box, all fully remote-controlled? Want to build it out of spare parts? Well then..." The guys at bit-tech have their Linux guru explain a complete networking solution built from old junk. Contains scripts, step-by-step instructions and lots of pics.

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is it just about building it or setting it up too?cos id like my own server but if i had one id just buy one, im not the type with a thousand computer parts, lol.i might look at the site!

is it just about building it or setting it up too?
cos id like my own server but if i had one id just buy one, im not the type with a thousand computer parts, lol.

i might look at the site!

Take a quick look at it . The first page is an introdution and a small part about which hardware you might need. The rest of the article is about installing Xubuntu.
Thanks for the link, your timing is perfect. One of these weeks I have to set up a linux server as a school assignment .

Thanks for this, its made me go out to the garage and pull out one of the old computers out there. I think I've found the perfect candidate! Hardwares perfect and i've been thinking about a server recently!Thanks-jimmy

id really like my own server, like REALLY like my own, but as i said, i dont exactly collect computers and parts and i would rather new over old so yeah i might buy a server one day. id really like one. i dont no wot OS id use, probably windows cos id also use the computer sometimes too.

I found that if you want cheap, sometimes free computers, schools are a great resource. Recently, my school updated some of there computers (the senior laboratory) and was pretty much giving them away! They were pretty decent computers (1gb ram, intel processor, nvidia graphics) and going cheap (though I got one for free! )It really depends what your doing with the server whether you need a new or old one, for me, and old one is ok but if you were running game servers - you might want something a bit more powerful (unlike the 'free' ones you can get!)

at my schoold they got a heap of new computers, some 1 and some 2 gb of ram, intel vcore or something, and like one of the best graphics cards. but with the old ones they just replaced some of the old crappy ones and put more round other class rooms.although LC (launceston college) were aparantly giving out there "old" computers which were almost the same as the new ones we got but since i dont go there yet (ill be going there for college though) i dont reckon i could have got one.if i did get a server, my parents would complain about the power bill though, lol since it would be on all day every day. can you just keep a server on standby or something? or does it actually have to be like on?

Well, for a server to do anything useful, it has to be on. If it isn't doing anything, though, then it probably won't consume much power, especially if it is a more modern low power usage CPU. Or, if your computer has wake-on-LAN, you could keep it off, send it a wake signal, then start using it again. Not useful if you want other people to be able to use it though. Also, to have remote access, you'll need either a static IP or something like dyn-dns to connect to your server.~Viz

Whoa this is so nice may be I will buy a new just to make it a server because I could host everything in my PC but I just want to ask a question when I made the server on this PC the one I'm using right now could this might have conflicts with the links when I access it ??

Mmm, I've seen these guides before. I've got an old AMD k6 motherboard lying around, might as well put it to use, not now though. As of today I have an installation of IndigoPerl (A bundle containing Apache, PHP, and mod_perl) on my main laptop which I use for testing things out, note that it is being run on my laptop's windows partition. This guide will be useful if I ever decide to use the old motherboard for anything serious involving servers. I've always wanted to run a mini hosting service. I'll refer to this in the future to help me.

I don't need a server, but if I would need one for any reason, I would purchase one I guess.The school server runs SuSE Linux, I think I prefer Ubuntu Linux.I do not recommend using Windows as your server system, unless are willing to put up with crashes and many restarts. The uptime for the server should be maximum, unless it is for personal use only. The installation of Apache, PHP and MySQL on Linux is way too complicated for me to apt-get myself, even with Ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager. I managed to install it on XAMPP, but it is just for me to test my PHP codes when I don't have access to the school server (well I can only access the school server at school).Just make sure that your ISP's terms and conditions (acceptable use policy, end-user license agreement, etc) permits running a server. For mine, Shaw Communications prohibits running a server under a residential Internet connection, so I would need to upgrade to a business account to be able to use my computer as a server. But I blocked outgoing connections to the world from XAMPP, and only allowed 127.0.0.1 to connect to 127.0.0.1