May 26, 2010 at 19:10Web Hosting
The article will be useful to residents of remote areas of our vast homeland. In it I will talk about the fate of my hosting server, how it originated, how it breathes and what it achieved. At this stage, free hosting is provided for student and non-profit projects. Also, the server raised media hosting and OpenID. In the near future, the server will develop into a large project.
I want to start by living in the city of Yakutsk. The city is small, but it is the capital of the diamond republic. We look into the outside world through satellites and radio relay. Everything goes through RosTeleCom. In fact, this is such a window on the Internet with all the ensuing consequences. There are no unlimited tariffs. Oh, brazenly lying! You can get 64 kbit / s for 3000 rubles per month.
A megabyte of "externally" costs ordinary people up to 1.5 rubles, sometimes more expensive. In connection with the above, most users are sitting in internal resources. Fortunately, they are. Everything is in the capital city of Yakutsk: IRC chats, torrents, game servers, news and entertainment portals, thematic sites. Here in this porridge and cook.
Back to our rams. A couple of years ago I needed hosting for several of my sites. At that time I was a student, money was spent only on beer, and I was looking for just a free hosting with PHP and MySQL. In Yakutsk there was only one hoster that matched these parameters, but it had significant disadvantages. Places allocated minuscule. In fact, there was nothing left for the media files. A domain name of the 3rd level was not given, and the site could be accessed only through the ugly link pages.somehost.ru/sitename/. You can still list the bad things, but that's not the point. Paid hosting cost from 500 rubles per month (and now it’s not cheaper).
As a result, the idea has ripened to put your server on the basis of an old machine. The first co-location platform for me was my native university. The coolers were buzzing, MySQL was spinning the database, Apache was generating pages, and packets were running along twisted pairs. Gradually, the sites of my friends and acquaintances ran across the server, new ideas and projects appeared. The old Pentium began to play pranks, they expelled me from the university (my first expulsion, there were only two) and also quit my job at the university. The question arose about moving the server to new equipment and to another site.
By acquaintance, I was allowed into the rack of one of the providers (Alexey, Pavel thanks).
An agreement on gratuitous co-location was concluded. An old building was found in the nooks of the provider (I had to line it up) in which the server settled. I got stable access to the network on 100 Megabits, and the provider the development of user resources. Network shooters started spinning on the server, friends pee network services, familiar webmasters kept sites. I myself dabbled with protection and settings, my hands were very itchy to turn-twist. Despite this, the server was working and overgrown with curiosity services. Either a video chat will appear, then a Jabber, then a happy birthday. RAM and hard drives were gradually added, the power supply was changing, the server moved to a new building. All this worked fine, but the drives clogged up with old garbage, MySQL stumbled over errors, the motherboard was junk. And what do you want from an ordinary machine on a 478 socket, I don’t remember where it came from. And in the courtyard of 2009.
Having gathered thoughts, experience, old records and customized by malfunctioning equipment, the concept of a new server was developed. The server was positioned as a free hosting for non-commercial and student projects. The provider gets more and more internal resources, students get the opportunity to show themselves and their knowledge, non-profit projects- to host their site for free, and I have experience in such matters, a bit of fame and +1 karma.
At his own expense (11 thousand wooden), new iron was purchased. At the moment, the server configuration is as follows:
Processor: AMD Athlon (tm) II X2 245
RAM: 4 Gb DDR3
HDD1: 1Tb for www and other
HDD2: 500 Gb for backups
I chose the operating system from CentOS and Ubuntu. I preferred Ubuntu due to the fact that in the city its mirrors are more often updated and I got used to it. The server started working, packets ran again.
What features are provided to users:
Little by little, I began to transfer old services from backups and create new ones. I restored Jabber, created media hosting, the site of the hosting itself and its IP (I am involved in the configuration and maintenance of linux servers).
Media hosting raised based on OStube. Pretty interesting German development. You can display video, audio, documents, music and blogging. There is also a Web-TV made up of video. I suffered from Russification (I can share).
In the city there appeared free hosting at the level of commercial analogues for non-commercial and student projects, easily adapting to the needs of the client. The service has already begun to be popular and has received a number of awards.
If in your city there is a similar situation with the Internet, then do not expect a miracle, go it yourself. You can always find an old computer, install Linux on it, and the local provider will gladly put this miracle in my rack. After all, it will not decrease from him, and besides, there will be an opportunity to have attractive resources for free. Any questions or suggestions, write in a personal or leave comments. At the request of the Khabrovsk citizens, I can create a detailed manual and post it here.
For those who have read to the end the link to the project site Hosting Camomile
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I want to start by living in the city of Yakutsk. The city is small, but it is the capital of the diamond republic. We look into the outside world through satellites and radio relay. Everything goes through RosTeleCom. In fact, this is such a window on the Internet with all the ensuing consequences. There are no unlimited tariffs. Oh, brazenly lying! You can get 64 kbit / s for 3000 rubles per month.
A megabyte of "externally" costs ordinary people up to 1.5 rubles, sometimes more expensive. In connection with the above, most users are sitting in internal resources. Fortunately, they are. Everything is in the capital city of Yakutsk: IRC chats, torrents, game servers, news and entertainment portals, thematic sites. Here in this porridge and cook.
The essence of the problem
Back to our rams. A couple of years ago I needed hosting for several of my sites. At that time I was a student, money was spent only on beer, and I was looking for just a free hosting with PHP and MySQL. In Yakutsk there was only one hoster that matched these parameters, but it had significant disadvantages. Places allocated minuscule. In fact, there was nothing left for the media files. A domain name of the 3rd level was not given, and the site could be accessed only through the ugly link pages.somehost.ru/sitename/. You can still list the bad things, but that's not the point. Paid hosting cost from 500 rubles per month (and now it’s not cheaper).
Solution
As a result, the idea has ripened to put your server on the basis of an old machine. The first co-location platform for me was my native university. The coolers were buzzing, MySQL was spinning the database, Apache was generating pages, and packets were running along twisted pairs. Gradually, the sites of my friends and acquaintances ran across the server, new ideas and projects appeared. The old Pentium began to play pranks, they expelled me from the university (my first expulsion, there were only two) and also quit my job at the university. The question arose about moving the server to new equipment and to another site.
Second coming
By acquaintance, I was allowed into the rack of one of the providers (Alexey, Pavel thanks).
An agreement on gratuitous co-location was concluded. An old building was found in the nooks of the provider (I had to line it up) in which the server settled. I got stable access to the network on 100 Megabits, and the provider the development of user resources. Network shooters started spinning on the server, friends pee network services, familiar webmasters kept sites. I myself dabbled with protection and settings, my hands were very itchy to turn-twist. Despite this, the server was working and overgrown with curiosity services. Either a video chat will appear, then a Jabber, then a happy birthday. RAM and hard drives were gradually added, the power supply was changing, the server moved to a new building. All this worked fine, but the drives clogged up with old garbage, MySQL stumbled over errors, the motherboard was junk. And what do you want from an ordinary machine on a 478 socket, I don’t remember where it came from. And in the courtyard of 2009.
Third coming
Having gathered thoughts, experience, old records and customized by malfunctioning equipment, the concept of a new server was developed. The server was positioned as a free hosting for non-commercial and student projects. The provider gets more and more internal resources, students get the opportunity to show themselves and their knowledge, non-profit projects- to host their site for free, and I have experience in such matters, a bit of fame and +1 karma.
At his own expense (11 thousand wooden), new iron was purchased. At the moment, the server configuration is as follows:
Processor: AMD Athlon (tm) II X2 245
RAM: 4 Gb DDR3
HDD1: 1Tb for www and other
HDD2: 500 Gb for backups
I chose the operating system from CentOS and Ubuntu. I preferred Ubuntu due to the fact that in the city its mirrors are more often updated and I got used to it. The server started working, packets ran again.
What features are provided to users:
- Disk space up to 300 MB;
- FTP access;
- Support for PHP, Perl, Python;
- Support for MySQL and PgSQL databases;
- 3rd level domain name (in the e-sakha.ru zone);
- Mailbox (if desired);
- Individual modules and settings (additional Apache modules, access to certain folders only from certain ip-addresses, etc.);
Little by little, I began to transfer old services from backups and create new ones. I restored Jabber, created media hosting, the site of the hosting itself and its IP (I am involved in the configuration and maintenance of linux servers).
Media hosting raised based on OStube. Pretty interesting German development. You can display video, audio, documents, music and blogging. There is also a Web-TV made up of video. I suffered from Russification (I can share).
What do we have in the end.
In the city there appeared free hosting at the level of commercial analogues for non-commercial and student projects, easily adapting to the needs of the client. The service has already begun to be popular and has received a number of awards.
If in your city there is a similar situation with the Internet, then do not expect a miracle, go it yourself. You can always find an old computer, install Linux on it, and the local provider will gladly put this miracle in my rack. After all, it will not decrease from him, and besides, there will be an opportunity to have attractive resources for free. Any questions or suggestions, write in a personal or leave comments. At the request of the Khabrovsk citizens, I can create a detailed manual and post it here.
For those who have read to the end the link to the project site Hosting Camomile