Does anyone know anything about turning your spare machine into a webserver.

A friend of mine recently did this to a spare machine. He just installed linux then put apache, mysql etc on and then runs it as a webserver. He has a 4MB buisness connection and says it runs fine.

Does anyone have any expierence with this and what would you need to do this?

Well first, you'd need a distro from linux (or windows if you want a windows server). After that, you just set up what you need. You can find many tutorials on setting up web servers, mysql, php and all the other mandetory features by visiting the following sites:

linuxforum.com
linux-guide.net
linuxhelp.com
linuxquestions.org

hope that helps some :)

I have Fedora and RHE on disk already so that shouldn't be a problem. Thanks for the links I will check them out

Here is a community dedicated to exactly what you want to do.

http://dslwebserver.com

Originally posted by voltion
Does anyone know anything about turning your spare machine into a webserver.

A friend of mine recently did this to a spare machine. He just installed linux then put apache, mysql etc on and then runs it as a webserver. He has a 4MB buisness connection and says it runs fine.

Does anyone have any expierence with this and what would you need to do this?

it doesnt matter how fast the connection is when running a web server, although its not advised to use it for hosting clients.

its not recommended you run any server from your home connection, since most ISP's have something in there TOS about running servers and will cap your connection.