My server

That bot and many other goodies I run on my home-server. Need of it was emerged when more than one computer was appeared at my home.

At first I bought wireless router (D-Link DI-624). Unfortunately, as it turned out later, I can't fully use my home network (Corbina-Yaroslavl): it is impossible to remain both in LAN and on the Internet at the same time (Internet is accessed via VPN, router doesn't support static routes :(, and I can't connect to VPN from more than one computer - it's limit of the provider).

Therefore I decided to buy old computer. I installed Linux on it, supplied it with 3 network cards and made it a router.

Initially I bought Pentium II, 400 MHz, 80 Gb, 128 Mb. Later I changed it to P4-2000, 512 Mb (I carried Linux with hard-disk to new computer without any problems - that's good :) ).

And now it's good that router was so weak - with normal home server I can do many interesting things :)

These thing are installed on it at this time:

  1. Router - iptables, NAT
  2. Web-server
  3. ftp-server
  4. jabber-server
  5. mail-server (at this time it doesn't work, I don't need it actually, but I want to bring it to normal state)
  6. IRC-bot (I had to turn it off, because inter-LAN IRC-server doesn't allow to enter more than 1 or 2 clients from one IP)
  7. icq-bot
  8. World of Warcraft-server (it was on P2 already, it eats about 400 megabytes of memory easily :) )
  9. MySQL
  10. If I remember, I will add more here...

Also I plan to make:

  1. Video-broadcasting (TV-tuner is installed on the server), using VLC, or something like it
  2. Something about VoIP (I don't have any definite ideas)
  3. Smart-house (X10-protocol)
  4. I plan to move to unlimited plan, and setup web-interface for downloader (mldonkey)

BTW, URL of server is http://fyfd.homeip.net/ http://server.f-y.name

Published: Oct 12, 2007, 1:45:00 AM - Modified: Jun 7, 2012, 1:42:21 PM
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