Richard Anthony Webley



About this site...



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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