Community webserver?

[whatton at optinest.com]

I have had DSL for about 2 months now and freakin love it.  I am trying to
get one of my Linux boxes (P90, 32megram) configured as a router and
firewall.  Since I am new to Linux this is no easy task.  I would be
interest in seeing what you want to set up. You can reply to this email
(work) or my home address wendellh at swbell.net.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at illiana.net [mailto:owner-kclug at illiana.net]On Behalf
Of Tony Hammitt
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 11:44 AM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: kclug - Community webserver?

Hello,

I just had a strange thought.  There are some people here in town who
can actually get business-class SDSL connections to their homes.  There
are other people like me who would like to but aren't in an approved
area of town.  Would it be possible to get together and drop off a box
at someone's residence that we could all use?  I'm already paying $30/mo
for various web hosting services.  That's a good chunk of what the
service would cost.  I've also got some usable hardware for a server.

The only problem I could see is getting the other server parts and
reimbursing the homeowner for power.  Does anyone else think that this
is a good idea?

I'd love to have a box I could actually configuremyself.  Right now my
web host doesn't have a decent database, etc. so I'm having to work
three times as hard hacking together a search engine.  If I just had a
box I could install software on, I'd skip all of that.

Love to hear what you all think,

Tony