OK...., here we go....
My reasons for creating this site are numerous, ranging from pure vanity, through to a means of self-expression...
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.html programming / web-site designing has always been something I had considered studying, and finally in Sept 2008,
I enrolled myself on a course at my local college, Farnborough College of Technology.
The course itself was very interesting, which was made more so being taught by a great lecturer - Chris Flack, cheers!
Another reason I decided to create my own "Official" Web-Site (that still makes me chuckle...) was because I like a challenge.
I also wanted to take this challenge one step further, I wanted to host the site myself.
A great number of people who possess web-sites employ a private organisation to both create & host the site.
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OK, my site is not the most visually explosive site on the planet, however it is all mine; and the thing that gives me the most
pleasure of all, is the fact that when you access
www.richardwebley.co.uk ,
you are in fact actually physically connecting to a Linux
Server (Fedora 16 Single Raid-I) sitting under my desk at home! So as well as creating & hosting my own site,
I am also responsible for maintaining the supporting mail & web server platform that it resides on.
At this point I should also give thanks to yet another college lecturer for his assistance - Krassimer Panchev, cheers!
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Technical Information
Here I have listed the resources that I have used to build and maintain this server.
Hardware Specification
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
ASROCK P4V88+ 800 FSB Motherboard
2.00 GB RAM (DDR 400, PC 3200)
4 Port Startech PCI SATA RAID 0,1 CARD
2 * 320 GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA II Drives
2 * 160 GB Samsung Spinpoint SATA II Drives
Software Specification
Fedora (RedHat) 18 Linux Operating System
Webmin GUI Server Admin Tool
Apache Web-Server
Awstats - Advanced Web Statistics Analysis Tool
Dynamic DNS Client
Sendmail SMTP Mail Server Software
Dovecot POP / IMAP Mail Server Software
IPTables - Packet Level Inspection Firewall
ClamAV Anti-Virus & Mail Filter Scanner Software
Et al...
My domain name, or
richardwebley.co.uk was registered with
123-reg.co.uk
DNS hosting, was registered with an organisation called
FreeDNS
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