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- p3nguin, on 10/11/2007, -5/+211This has nothing to do with becoming an ISP. It is how to set up a server for web hosting. Two totally different things.
- JonRick, on 10/11/2007, -2/+74Misleading title... no digg
- bias, on 10/11/2007, -2/+61Be sure to call your ISP to cancel your Cable or ADSL, then wait for Linux to bring the "Internet" to your home.
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -3/+57For a second I thought I might be able to stop forking over money over to verizon monopoly-style.
- jjk5, on 10/11/2007, -1/+41You mean I can't run my ISP off my neighbors WiFi?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+42What is the intended audience for this article? Who has the ability to run and maintain all of these services but cannot install them?
I understand wanting to try new things, but I doubt anyone who has trouble installing these services from the individual manuals would have any more luck learning how to use them in the first place.
And BTW, mandriva? - anastrophe, on 10/11/2007, -4/+32"At this point, the comments for this article are arguing symantecs"
i don't think anyone has mentioned crappy antivirus software vendors at all. - AJH16, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24@crucifiedego. If you do not provide internet connections to clients then you are not an ISP you are a hosting provider. There is a big difference, wether or not the company you work at realizes it. Oh and for the record, I own a hosting provider, so don't try telling me I don't know what I'm talking about.
- selrahc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Get wireless router. Charge neighbors.
- Ramble, on 10/11/2007, -5/+19What kind of ***** idiot would use mandriva as a server?
- meshman, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15I assume the T1 or higher connection required for hosting magically pops out of the wall.
- tardmaster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13You mean 'ASP' (application service provider, aka hosted internet service provider), not 'ISP' retard. ISP would mean you had a bank of 100 modems and a digiboard in your basement.
- Surreal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Buried for inaccurate but hilarious title!
- broeks, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Then you become other people's ISP. Then your ISP comes over and get's you for violating the TOS.
- frimple, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8*raises the back of my hand*
- ostracize, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8The ISP is ignorant of how many people there are in my household. To them, traffic looks the same.
Hell, you can argue that they are stealing your wireless and are only paying you monthly because you are such a nice person. - Savut, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10@CrucifiedEgo
Your comments just make me laugh so hard. Thank for that.
I'm too lazy to explain but you can check here just to make you less dumb.
Your company is not an ISP if you dont provide internet access to your clients, you are just an web hosting and mail hosting solution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider
An Internet service provider (abbr. ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a business or organization that provides to consumers access to the Internet and related services. In the past, most ISPs were run by the phone companies. Now, ISPs can be started by just about any individual or group with sufficient money and expertise. In addition to Internet access via various technologies such as dial-up and DSL, they may provide a combination of services including Internet transit, domain name registration and hosting, web hosting, and colocation. - SteveMax, on 10/11/2007, -11/+18Dugg just for not being yet another "[BREAKING] How to run Firefox in UBUNTU! AMAZING!!!!!!!11!one!" story that just says generic *nix things.
- samdu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8One important thing missing... bandwidth.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6That gets a big "so what" for a system that can run network services and a "inaccurate" dig down for calling a system that runs network services an ISP.
- rasterbator, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Exactly how do you get that thing on Verizon or AT&T's backbone?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5marked as inaccurate!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Buried for inaccurate. I was expecting to finally be able to stop spending insane amounts of money for sub-par service.
- FastZ, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4What the *****?! I wanna be an ISP. I have a server at home...and a wireless router. Does that make me ISP-qualified?
- vonskippy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Since when did HOWTOFORGE crap become frontpage material?
Will the other 900 HTF articles be here anytime soon? If so, just redirect digg.com to howtoforge.com and be done with it.
Gessh. - syafthegeek, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6Linux is a good start for making an ISP server or a web host server but if the bandwidth is slow you have to forget about it.
- md4wg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Please, not another "Perfect Server" tutorial from How to Forge. Also, this is a web server setup.
Web server != ISP - Goosemaster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Strangely when I think of my own server, hosting, or ISPs, I never think of Mandriva....
I wonder why? :P - explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2@kmckanna
The easiest way to get a personal web server on your home computer is to run apache: http://httpd.apache.org/
Keep in mind, you need to either have a static external IP or use a dynamic DNS service: http://www.dyndns.com/ - kungfoolou, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Every general, non-specialized linux distro comes with these services. Why is this any more special?
- x2wenty4x, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2buried. inaccurate
- HsoKinees, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1so... does anyone here actually not how to make your own ISP? what's the process? i don't understand how Bandwidth is made +_+
- FloHimself, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Same howto for CentOS, Debian, Fedora Core, SuSE, Ubuntu: http://www.ispconfig.org/documentation.htm
- jasonvw, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I used it five or so years ago.. then i switched to clarkconnect. It rocks as a server and does all this out of the box. and you don't necessarily need to even know linux to use it. I installed for a client. he has no idea what linux is, but it uses the web interface to manage content filters and such.
- RoadWarriorX11, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Not that I use it or anything but...
What does everyone have against Mandriva?
Just because it's not ubuntu doesn't mean you have to diss it..
Stupid fanboys
"You're using Mandriva as a server ZOMGZ Madriva is teh suxorz!!!" - AlericB, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The Perfect Setup series on How To Forge are recommended server configurations for setting up ISPConfig, which is described on their website as “an open source hosting control panel for Linux.” The end result is a machine you can mange through a web interface for Apache, FTP, Email, DNS, Firewall, Monitoring, WebFTP, Web Mail, Billing, and more. This one happens to be the one for Mandriva. There is a setup for all the popular flavors of Linux.
- cozb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1not sure how out of date it is..but :
http://linuxgazette.net/issue38/gentry.html
and
http://iria.pku.edu.cn/~jiangm/software-docs/ppp-dialin-server/index.html - NinjaBoy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sweet but how do i hook it up to the tubes without an ISP?
- scronline, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Pretty much. It also doesn't show you how to KEEP it running. I've been doing this for over 2 decades now and there's no single article you will ever be able to read to get "happy" hosting results. It's just not going to happen. People writing stuff like this are just trying to get advertising out of it one way or another and the people that end up doing things like this end up being the ones that suffer. OR in the more extreme cases the people who think the people using things like this know what they're doing suffer.
Of course those of us that know what we're doing end up having to deal with customers calling us saying "why can't I get to my site that's hosted on XXX site?" "Well, it appears that your host has misconfigured their server." "but I got there yesterday! what did you change?" #@$%#@%@$#% - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2What type of software is their for linux to allow users to dial into my connection? The way an isp provides dial up (splitting up the bandwidth of a t1) to dial up users?
- anotherdiggdude, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Not new and not ISP. You are serving your own site.
Theres all types of wamps/lamps available for free
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs - schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -5/+5They have some good articles though. I'd agree that mass-submitting these to TuxMachines, Technocrat, Netscape, Digg, LXer is a tad unnecessary. A lof of self promotion, but I'll admit there's a lot of subtance as well.
- reha, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1funny digg site promoting howtoforge website crap guys
- johnmasterchief, on 05/05/2008, -0/+0hey, i no this probably sounds stupid but is there a way to cut out everyone and become you own internet provider completly, like qwest or comcast or something?
- lezard, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I guess not being Ubuntu is a shame these days for those fanboys.
For me, I don't care, everything is rock-solid, and I don't see anything that would give me a second thought. - scribebox, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1they forgot about running an oc3 fiber pipe into my house.
:s
-Scribe - liminaldust, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2inaccurate...
- SeanKelly88, on 04/19/2008, -0/+0Geez...
Talk about mindless riot mentality... let's all jump on the band wagon and dis someone who might think that an all-in-one package is cool... even if it isn't a big deal.
"stupid fanboys" (see above) was a very appropriate retort (i.e. "reply" for you fanboys).
-eof- - ostracize, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2I'm moving to an apartment building and I really want to do this. Why should I and, like, 10 of my neighbours funnel $30+/month each to a single company for bandwidth we don't usually need and fight with each other's wireless signals, when we can all split the costs and bandwidth.
Has anyone else been doing this? - FarcicalFart, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5Mandriva is useless.
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