Day 1 – Copied from Ubuntulondon site

Well things have so busy in my life recently, I have had no chance to play catchup online.

I am back now and going to be using this spot for all my discoveries and thoughts I have found over the next few weeks. Firstly today I have decided to set up the Brother in Laws pc that is sitting in the back room doing nothing, into a dedicated Linux server. I would like to host this blog or something similar in-house here at home. The only problem I have come across is that My BT home landline and broadband is on a dynamic IP. I have set a dyndns account up to help with that, but you still will not get the right results via alexa and the google spiders when it comes to meta tags, keywords and content. When you use a dyndns account, bundled with a domain name that I have registered, you can only use web forwarding – this then does not allow you to view your sub folders and sub sites under your domain name – ie www.myhomepage.co.uk — you cannot see www.myhomepage.co.uk/links/mates.html for instance. So I need to have a chat with BT and find out if I can get a static IP address and set up a local DNS server on my Linux server, hosting my webserver and blogging site here at home. By having this at home – I can juice it up, no limitations and it is great for learning. So I will let you all know the outcome on this…. so watch this space.