dorkbydesign. Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 This is basically me asking for help on setting up a webserver. So here's what I want to do. So is there a Mac OS X Server OSx86 version? And how do I configure my DNS so I can get free domain names? I'll give people who contribute to this positively, Light hosting. Namely: 200MB storage 30GB Bandwidth Free Domains (If I figure out how to do it) etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 How many computers are you going to use for all this? Do you have a router? What machines are the virtuals running on? You don't need to fileservers, the mac one can serve mac & pc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orea Posted July 29, 2008 Share Posted July 29, 2008 Just install the packages from leopard server onto a x86 install. :~) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorkbydesign. Posted July 30, 2008 Author Share Posted July 30, 2008 How many computers are you going to use for all this? One. Pentium D 2.8GHz. 2GB 667 RAM. 1.5TB HDD Do you have a router? Yes, D-link DI-524 or an Airport Extreme Snow What machines are the virtuals running on? Don't understand what you're asking. If your asking about the emulation software, I'm using Microsoft Virtual PC. You don't need to fileservers, the mac one can serve mac & pc Even network accounts? Just install the packages from leopard server onto a x86 install. :~) 1. Don't own an OSX Server Licence 2. Dont know which packages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 You router should be able to do dyndns. Look in the control panel. Thats a lot of virtual machines on one computer. Mac OS X server has apache. Network account as in ldap? My recommendation - run ubuntu (not in a virtual machine if you can), have it be a fileserver, web server, game server. howtoforge.com is a start. Virtual machines will kill your computer, you wont be able to do processor-intensive stuff while it is on. I'll keep watching this thread to help you along the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Yeah, I agree with skyhighmac in the sense that virtual PCs are resource eaters. They should never be left on as virtual servers, that will kill your computer unless its a powerful beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorkbydesign. Posted August 1, 2008 Author Share Posted August 1, 2008 Thanks. So I just use ubuntu? I dont really care about network accounts. I just want webhosting and game hosting. And my router can do dyndns but i dont want to pay for a domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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