Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:56:30 -0400 From: "Jason" <username@cac.net> To: "Megumi" <megumi_tsukino@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I need answers, PLEASE READ Message-ID: <002401c02fb6$60227c40$df026b83@jason> References: <OE21IFprhMOgRGkQ6mB00001bdf@hotmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A server is merely any computer with services running that can be served to others. For example, I have a computer that provides SMTP/POP3 (imcoming and outgoing) email services, now this would qualify it as a server, but if I were to also run Xwindows and write some documents then it could also be considered a workstation as well. You can use a server as a workstation and a workstation as a server, (FreeBSD is powerful enough to be able to do this with ease. :-)). I have never heard of someone having to be of a certain age to run a server for personal and/or non-commercial uses. This doesn't mean that it isn't possible but I would sincerely doubt that you have to worry about age being a problem. As far as server crashes, there are a multitude of reasons a server could crash, it could be hardware related, a flaw in the software, etc. It is possible that you computer could crash but that possibility is no more prevalent than if you were to not run a server. Whatever goes wrong with it, it can always be repaired. I am not sure what you mean by the files you upload to the net getting placed on your pc hard drive. If you are at a different location than where your server is and you have FTP running on your server (and your server has a public IP) you can access the FTP service running on your pc and copy files to it that you can then retrieve locally from your pc. However, when you upload a file you are placing it on a different server and depending on where you are uploading the file from it may or may not exist on the servers hard drive. With FreeBSD you can indeed offer web hosting, ftp, shell accounts, email, dns and a host of other services on your pc. Any programming language you use can be put to some use, it is up to you to research what you want to do and see what languages would be useful. As a general rule for system administration shell scripting and perl are good things to learn, for web development, HTML, PHP and Javascript would be good to learn. The amount of hard drive space used depends on the type of install that you do, it can be anywhere from about 500 MB's to about 1 GB. With 30GB hard disk, 400MHz processor, and 128 MB of RAM FreeBSD will run as smooth as silk, granted you don't have any arcane and unsupported hardware in it. For more in depth answers you can go to http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html - -Jason - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Megumi" <megumi_tsukino@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:52 AM Subject: I need answers, PLEASE READ I know very little about web servers, so don't mind my stupidity while I ask you some questions. When I install this, does it turn my entire computer into just a server, or does it still function the same? do you have to be a certain age to own a server legally? I've heard a lot about disasters happening with owning servers. If something goes wrong, could my entire computer crash? Do the files I upload to the net on this server get placed on my PC's hard drive? Can I make my own specifications to this server, such as uploading any legal type of file I want, including media and ROMs, and of any size? Can I turn this server into a web hosting site for others? Aside from HTML, Java, Javascript, etc, do you need to know programming languages, such as C++? How much space does this take up on my hard drive? Will it run smoothly with a 30GB hard drive, 450 Mhz, 128 MB RAM and Cable internet connection if the site is very large? Please reply as soon as you can. Sincerely, Megumi Tsukino -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOd4EPHGfX7CR8SmVEQJVJQCgyU6RccIcGbSkF7eDwgFWXwZq6t0AoMjY /GQpqHHl4encfG8T7OZi8943 =LEdI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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