Thanks to the trade with Kami, I have an Uber cool Router which has a very fun set of toys, one of which is the ability to re-route ports. So for example, I could run 2 web servers behind the router, one at port 80, another at port 81..and the router can let me use the internal port 81 as the external port 80..Kinda nice if you run a small webserver for local use and don't want to bother typing in the port number, while outside users are auto-magically routed in and out of the ports with no problems to the port 81 server,a nd they don't have to type the port because to the outside world, it's really port 80.

My 8600 has found life as a server to be most rewarding, since it now runs a web server, AppleShare IP, Hotline and other tools. (I can ever remote control it using Timbuktu, how cool is that? No monitor neded!)

I'm getting everything ready for when I open the doors to my Tempest Server. It's been so long since anyone has worked on that project because iether people are insanely busy or other factors are involved.

If all goes well and the machines on the network behave as they should, then things will be much closer to my end goal. The only one minor thing left is to get proper cooling inside the Mac for that 7200RPM drive, it's enough to fry an egg kid you not.

So if everything work out, you will see webpages start to pop up as folks start requesting free pages. (I made a decision a while back to do this on donation basis, so basically folks get a free site and if they donate I give them some extra goodies)

The target amount of space the machine will have is 8-9GB so to get the 500 clients I am alloted I think 5MB per user is a safe option with more space and freedom coming if a person decides to donate a bit. (If a person donates I was thinking of increasing thier space to maybe 10-15MB and giving them a real url like yourname.domain.com instead of domain.com/yourname plus whatever other goodies I can think of)

Suggestions? Ideas? I don't bite. Seriously.

I dont think that you'll have a problem hitting your storage goals

--Eric
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I'm like the Pepsi employee that drinks Coke. I work on PCs at work but use a Mac at home

For remote controlling, I've been thinking about the admin tools, and about VNC (which is more likely to become my choice, if I absolutely need remote adminning.)

I haven't determined if i was going to try to 'impose' some kind of disc space limit, so far as I've seen, I "yeah"

cool about getting things working, and good luck keeping it that way in the future

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