Hardware and OS for Web Sites
How do you go about hosting a web site? Do you just rent some space on a machine, rent a whole machine, use your own machine? Let us investigate trying to host the site on a machine at your home.
What about Backups? Do you do them? how often should you do them? What should be backed up?
Reliability - How reliable is your machine. How likely is it to crash when hundreds of people start to use it at the same time?
Access How many people can access your machine at the same time?
What OS do you use?
Write down all the OS you can think of. You should easily manage 20. Which ones of these are good for hosting a web site? How do you know? What evidence? Where could you get the evidence from? What does everyone else use? What might be the best OS to use? Why?
What PC hardware might be required?
What internet connection will you need? What is the problem with ADSL?
What software will you require?
What access will you allow the web site users?
How would you go about setting up anonymous FTP?
Firewall - What types?
Homework P6 [Specify the hardware and software requirements] that would be needed to allow this website to be set up on your home computer and then to be accessed from your home onto the internet. Assignment Front Cover
P1 - Start Building the Web Site