check out my webserver

[jhu]

it's a neat little machine. it's not serving much right now, perhaps later...

 

[cpals]

That little box is your webserver? Why not set one up with a slow computer laying around? Also, how does it work? It looks cool/interesting, just seems like a waste of money though. If you got the $$$ though, congrats!!

 

[Broohaha]

what's a server?

 

[jhu]

this thing was rather inexpensive, and compared with a slow computer it draws at most 15 watts

 

[cpals]

What software comes in it and how much space?

 

[jhu]

Here you go. it's officially a modem router. it's easily hacked into a webserver or almost anything else. it has 2 megabytes of flash and 8 megabytes of sdram. pretty small footprint, but still useable.

 

[RossMAN]

I have a Gallant GW500 web/email server not sure if I'll use it or sell it on eBay.

 

[jonmullen]

So basically it only really has a cool factor?...Is it limited to just serving static HTML or do you have any type of scripting on it?

 

[cpals]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I have a Gallant GW500 web/email server not sure if I'll use it or sell it on eBay.

How'd you get that?

Also, jhu, you're still on dial-up? And with over 7000+ posts! Must be a long wait making all those posts.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: cpals

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I have a Gallant GW500 web/email server not sure if I'll use it or sell it on eBay.

How'd you get that?

Also, jhu, you're still on dial-up? And with over 7000+ posts! Must be a long wait making all those posts.

CompUSA had them, they no longer carry it.

Brand new sealed in box.

 

[jhu]

Also, jhu, you're still on dial-up? And with over 7000+ posts! Must be a long wait making all those posts.

well, i'm actually on dsl. i'm using that device as a webserver right now. and it does have scripting capabilities

 

Did you enable dhcp for your monitor?

 

[jhu]

no, it's disabled

 

[jhu]

ok, i have slightly more interesting content up now

 

[amnesiac]

The page cannot be displayed

Yeah, REAL interesting.

 

[jhu]

it should work now

 

[BoberFett]

Hey jhu, long time no see.

Cool little server, I'll have to check that out. Might make a fun project.

 

[jhu]

what up boberfett!

yeah, i got this thing after reading the slashdot article on it. prior to this, i'd been looking for some cheap and low power device to host a small website on.

 

[cpals]

I'ts gonna have to be pretty small with only 8mb of space.

 

[BoberFett]

For a website 8MB is tons of room.

 

[jhu]

unfortunately, it's less than 8mb because the the linux kernel takes up about 1.5mb, plus it loads several processes at startup. on the other hand, a personal site doesn't really need to be that big.

 

[cpals]

Originally posted by: BoberFett
For a website 8MB is tons of room.

It depends on what the website is for... if it's just a personal "hi, this is me" type of website, then yeah, it should be plenty. But put up a few fairly large pictures and/or some files that you need and it can quickly be used up.

In comparison, my website currently has over 500MB of space being used. It really just matters on what it's going to be used for.

 

[jhu]

you're definitely not going to be using this thing as a production server

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: cpals

Originally posted by: BoberFett
For a website 8MB is tons of room.

It depends on what the website is for... if it's just a personal "hi, this is me" type of website, then yeah, it should be plenty. But put up a few fairly large pictures and/or some files that you need and it can quickly be used up.

In comparison, my website currently has over 500MB of space being used. It really just matters on what it's going to be used for.

I'm aware, I run a site at work that's a 30 GB database driven site and run another site in my spare time that's well over 1 GB now. But you can do an awful lot in 8 MB with some careful hand layout and CSS. Not every site has to be barfed on with animated GIFs and Flash.