Day 3….

Well as I had Mentioned, I am awaiting my new BT Business account to be activated so that I can allocate the spare pc’s lying around a Linux server and static IP address….. makes things easier when publishing a live web server on the internet. I aim to run a Linux server that will host a blog, wiki, forum, mail server, ftp server and a few other fancy things I have come across. Of course of the how I did it and am doing it will be posted here under “My New Project” category. I have also added a “Install Fesity” category that will allow you all to play catchup if you haven’t already had a go with Ubuntu Linux. There you will find a step by step “HOWTO” on getting Ubuntu Linux onto you machine, one way or another. So head on over there if you haven’t already. And keep an eye out on the “Day” posts for “My New Project” on up to date news on getting this going live…. for the next few days I will be updating the “Install Feisty” areas and adding a “Install Feisty Server” soon, in giving you an idea on how I will be creating my server. For this I will be using a Virtual Machine at work so I can take some great screen-shots for you and post them on the blog.

Chat soon……

Day 2 – copied over from ubuntulondon site

Well its day 2 now, been looking into those static IP address’s and have discovered that on the BT home package they do not allocate and cant allocate you an IP address without changing the package to a Business broadband account. I have had to move my Broadband from Option 3 on home to the Business option 2 in order to get the IP address’s.

What this now means is I have to pay £35 pounds a month including 5 Static IP address’s, will loose the 5gig online vault, will loose the free evening and weekend calls bundled into the wifi phone set on the home hub, and will receive new equipment as well. I was paying £22.99 /month for the previous package. I do gain the use of 5 static ip address’s though so at least I can set up my 2 machines on the web. Bit of a bummer, wish I new this earlier, so let it be a lesson for everyone – BT do not give static ip’s on the total broadband options. So if you are a Linux / server fanatic like myself, you may want to check with your ISP that you can get static IP’s or at least 1 from them on a home package.

One good website I came accross a while aggo, that will tell you what you can get on your line in your area as well as statistics on speeds on your exchange, distances etc and good for comparing ISP’s is: www.samknows.com

So They tell me that the line will switch over for Monday – with little downtime (30min) and that I should get the new router on friday (which I asked them to deliver to work) as they also require someone to sign for the package when they deliver it. So watch out for that too, got burnt the first time on delivery. Will let you know more on how that goes next week!

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.