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Does it require much change to migrate Windows web-server to Linux?
duralast:
I once had a job as a Web Server admin combined with being the Solaris systems admin for a large online retailer. It lasted a year (2005-2006) and then I bailed. I would never be a Web admin ever again. Maybe it was just that place, but it was brutal. They had no capacity planning and did not know how much traffic they could take and I was there like a month and marketing decided to place a link to their sites (six of them) on the MSN home page for Halloween. That did what marketing wanted. It got traffic. Site went down, then up, then down, then up. The company bought new web and database servers and they had to be setup and installed over three days.
More recently (2014-2021), I ran my own web and mail servers at home and hosted three sites. One of them commercial. I had a static IP which cost $150 per month for their SOHO plan (I'm in the US). I ran Pound as the reverse proxy and nginx as the web server both using FreeBSD. My mail server started on Plan 9, then I moved it to ArcaOS (OS/2), and then finally moved it to OpenBSD using OpenSMTPD. For my firewall I started with OpenBSD and pf, and when they changed the syntax of pf I switched to FreeBSD and ipf.
I had a hardware failure and shut it down in 2021 and moved to a dynamic IP. I haven't ran a web server since. I don't know about using anything hosted, but running your own isn't difficult. The biggest threats were the constant attempts on the mail server and seeing if PHP/WordPress was in use (they were not).
If one was to use WordPress then I would never recommend hosting it yourself and to hire a dedicated WordPress hosting service. They would have the security in place.
Thaddy:
--- Quote from: MarkMLl on July 05, 2024, 12:27:44 pm ---which /cannot/ be relied on.
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Well, yes, to be fair I run it over a dyndns by no-ip. But in principle it would work.
Examples are my experimental websites thaddy.org and thaddy.nl, which can change of being hosted by me or the hosting by a flick of a switch - and a bit of time -. For casual users that can be the cheapest solution.
Off-topic: costs for a .com domain may be running out of control in the near future, so maybe I will give that one up and move the lot to thaddy.nl, which is not doing much at the moment. The org and nl domains are not vulnerable to commercial excesses that is now and in the past attempted.
MarkMLl:
My business web server- basically, a dummy page since I'd rather present that to customers than something flashy which ran the risk of being hacked- is on AAISP which is occasionally described as one of the more techie-oriented boutique ISPs.
https://hackaday.com/2017/12/14/adsl-robustness-verified-by-running-over-wet-string/
A related company makes highly-regarded routers etc., much used by other small ISPs... so they have a track record. They've also got considerable "form" when it comes to fighting off DDoS attacks, since they've made themselves unpopular in some circles by refusing to do more than the legislated minimum when it comes to cooperating with law enforcement and censorship.
Having set the scene there, they run a web server of their own design which distributes requests based on their content, not on a DNS lookup. Hence, I could in principle have business email hosted by a spam-filtering service and an active website hosted by AAISP, without needing a static IP of my own. Or alternatively, I could simply have a redirect from their public IP4 WWW address to one on local IP4 or IP6 via one of their tunnels.
I'm not saying that they are alone in offering that sort of thing, or that their solutions are the best or the only way of doing it. But I think it's fair to say that the restrictions these days are principally based on what ISPs can and will offer, rather than on what is technically possible.
MarkMLl
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