Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:46:53 -0400 From: "Jeays, Mike - SDD/DDS" <mike.jeays@statcan.ca> To: "'Megumi'" <megumi_tsukino@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I need answers, PLEASE READ Message-ID: <F2DCDE350C71D411A68900902715763B9F636D@msxa4.itsd.statcan.ca>
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-----Original Message----- From: Megumi [mailto:megumi_tsukino@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:52 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- It will function just as before, except it may be busy sometimes doing work for other machines it is connected to. do you have to be a certain age to own a server legally? Not that I know of - I have never heard of such a restriction. I've heard a lot about disasters happening with owning servers. If something goes wrong, could my entire computer crash? Yes, it could. The biggest risk is that someone may deliberately sabotage your system by hacking into it. You need to set up the firewall options that are built into FreeBSD to protect yourself as far as you can. Do the files I upload to the net on this server get placed on my PC's hard drive? If you or someone else uploads files onto your machine while it is configured as a server, they will be placed on the hard drive of your machine. 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? Yes, you have complete control over it - its your machine. Implementing such restrictions may take some work, and/or some programming, depending on what you want to do. Can I turn this server into a web hosting site for others? Yes. Aside from HTML, Java, Javascript, etc, do you need to know programming languages, such as C++? No. How much space does this take up on my hard drive? Whatever gets uploaded will take up space. Will it run smoothly with a 30GB hard drive, 450 Mhz, 128 MB RAM and Cable internet connection if the site is very large? This machine will function as a small server by today's standards. It should run fine right up to the point where it gets overloaded with work for others. Please reply as soon as you can. Sincerely, Megumi Tsukino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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