Setting up home server

[Slim Odds]

As was hinted at earlier, your terms of service may not allow you to run a web server on the Internet. You had better check into that first.

P.S. Your brothers blog could use an update, it's still suggesting downloading Dapper!

[1clue]

Dear all

Thank you for the replies. Unfortunately, some of those giving replies forgot my question and suggested I NOT do what I intended. I appreciate your good intentions, but unfortunately that did not help with achieving what I am setting out to do.

However, to those who gave suggestions, the use of No-IP seems to be my best bet. Thanks to rubylaser for the suggestion. I will try that out.

My questions weren't trying to get you to stop, I was seriously asking you to examine WHY you want to, and if some other approach wouldn't be better for you.

I've put together over a dozen "servers" from old hardware exactly the way you're describing. At one point I had 3 at one time. Then I realized those servers were more trouble than they were worth.

If you have the time and if your goal is to learn something more than it is to "make use of old hardware" then go right ahead. If you have something specific in mind and a real reason to use that thing, then go ahead.

If, on the other hand, you're thinking of a media share for your iTunes, phones and whatever else then I personally think a SOHO appliance is smaller, quieter, incredibly more convenient, and above all, already set up for use by modern non-nerds.