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Written by SVTechie
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Thursday, 16 March 2006 |
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For personal webpage owners who wants flexibility as well as cheap
option, great way is to host server at home. But it involves working
with multiple tools if site uses powerful features. SVTechie.COM is
perfect example of a personal site which is as powerful and feature
rich as any commercial web site (Except few visits and bandwidth
requirements). Only two kind of web hosting services are available out
there, "very costly and feature rich" or "cheap with limited resources"
at disposal. This has forced me to adventure into unkown world of web
hosting & server where it can be cheap and at the same time feature
rich!! Stay Tuned for Updates.
Any question regarding this can be discussed at SVTechie forum.
Please Note: This section discuss information, specific to
SVTechie.COM only. Your requirement may differ significantly, hence
please use any information , presented here on your own risk. This
website and author are no way responsible for damage caused.
SVTechie.COM uses following softwares to manage contents
All
of above are PHP based and support MYSQL for database management. If
contents are very feature rich, PHP may require more memory to run and
execute PHP scripts. Memory allocated to run PHP scripts is called PHP
memory and is normally allocated by server administrator. Because of
PHP memory limitation, Many host like BlueHost, or Netfirms can not support Gallery 2!! So it makes sense to have Web Server at Home, if you have broadband connectivity.
Another
thing to note is that SVTechie uses open source and free softwares.
Similarily , SVTechie Back-End includes following software
Now
it is very tricky situation, because I want to use my wife's PC as
webserver and she wants to use Windows XP! And easy way out is to use CYGWIN. CYGWIN provides UNIX layer on Windows Plateforms. But it also slows down execution of PHP scripts. Easiest way is to use EasyPHP which
is Apache, MySQL and PHP combined in package. But because of legacy
reasons, Cygwin is going to be used. Also there is great support for
Python, Perl, SSH and various utilities under Cygwin. Initial Specification is
- AMD Athlon 1400+ processor based system
- 40 GB Hard Disk
- 768 MB Memory (512 MB added because of high memory requirements)
- High Bandwidth Connection (Dynamic IP one will do)
Next section is CYGWIN install... Stay tuned for further updates.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 March 2006 )
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