Sites served from Home

After a couple of years of hosting my sites with various service providers I decided that I would try hosting them from my home server. One of the main factors is that it works out to be a fair amount cheaper, another was that I thought that it would a bit educational. I figured that my home server was on all the time so why not.

There is a stack of information out there on how to do it, so I won’t waste my time by rehashing.

The setup at as follows;

• Windows 2003 Server
  • 1740 HighPoint RocketRAID Card with 4 x 640GB WD in RAID 5

• Dynamic DNS – http://www.dyndns.com/ 
• Web Server – Apache 2
• Mail Server – hMailServer
• FTP Server – Trying FileZilla but not convinced yet so may change
• Torrent – µTorrent – with web client
• PHP 5
• MYSQL 5
• WordPress