I just read about this:
http://colorclassic.dyndns.org/
I have a few older Macs in house. It would be fun to run server software on one of them...
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s I ran a dial up BBS on the Fido network. After the WWW was invented, many of us left the dial up fido world and built web servers. My first server ran on FreeBSD. After that it was linux (no GUI interface), then I moved to Red Hat. After that, I found that just about every time I did a security update I would break something. I even lost a girlfriend over it. I was running majordomo to give some folks free users groups. I came home one night to find my server down. I wanted to fix it because I had so many people out of service. But my girlfriend at the time thought I needed to spend the evening with her.... Anyway, I have forgotten what little I knew about linux.
I have about 90Mbps up and about the same down. I have the Mac I am going to use connected via ethernet. It is a Color Classic II and I might update it with a 575 logic board.
I just down loaded MacHTTP 2.6 I am doing a fresh install of 7.6.1 on a partition of the hard drive (SCSI2CF) in my Color Classic II. After that is installed and updated, I will try to install MacHTTP 2.6 and see how far I get.
A few questions......
Do I need a static IP address to do this? I thought I read someplace that a work around was available for dynamic addressing - I think this was in the windows world...
Do I need to buy a domain name? I think I still own one - I have had it for maybe 6/8 years now... But the name I own is not at all related to my 68K Mac hobby.....
Any tips appreciated. I do not know what I am doing so I am just jumping in feet first...
mraroid