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Owners of Adventures Keep BBS comes to the Web. |
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The presents of this website on the web is prof that it is possible to essentially be your own ISP. It has taken my a little over a month to set up but here it is. Thanks to Red Hat Linux and Qwest DSL. The server this site runs on is our own, not rented, leased, or managed by someone else's, our own. Best of all, it has not cost us thousands of dollars to setup, for hardware, software, and licensing. |
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| How to be your own ISP! |
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Items Needed 2. PC for Web Server 3. Linux Addiction to computers very helpful (optional) Simplified Instructions |
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| A. Switch to your Desired ISP. Did I just say ISP, uh yeah, even an ISP has to have a connection to the rest of the Internet, The over obvious stated. Most of us all ready have this, thou who your service provider is can make a difference. Two things are helpful here. First is renting fixed IP address or small group of address with out needing a business account. The second being able to buy bandwidth by size of the pipe, not volume. That way the unexpected international popularity of say, your Nu ma Nu ma Dance Video, leaving you with a $15,000 bandwidth bill for just last weekend, does not happen. |
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| B. PC for Web Server. This has some
options, just use the extra parts leftover from your last PC upgrade to make a humble box, see optional from above, or save your old tired PC when its just too slow, for that latest and greatest game, (Oops, I mean when its too old for the new office suite to do your home work on.) and you up grade to a new one, A second network card is handy that way you can make it a real firewall for the rest of your Families computer network; wireless network, computers, Laptops, Xbox Live, Wii, etc. etc... Um I mean for my real computer. |
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| C. Linux, Surf the web to find your
favorite Open Source OS flavor. Then buy a Linux Bible based on that OS which will usually come with a DVD/CDs of the OS as well as real detailed instructions on how to do all this. An other option is a Geek method to just download your chosen OS ISO, burn your DVD, Install OS, read docs, finish configurations. Basically web, mail, firewall, anti-spam, anti-virus services. Test each service to verify is work right. Then move on to the next service. |
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| Congratulations, You are
your own ISP! |
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