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[perkelator]

Hey guys, I am wanting to host a web server from my house and have quite a few questions about it. This is for a college project.

I have a HP laptop with a I3 and 4 GB of RAM it is currently running on, I have LAMP set up and it is working fine so far. I need to do light PHP and SQL work on the server. but that should be about it. Is this good enough? I have a 2ed option and that is to take my old FX-6350 and buy a cheap mother board and GPU to make the server. I have the money for it just would be nice to spend else where.

 

How safe it is to host a website off my home network? I have firewalls on my server and my router. I have the option to host it on a DMZ what should I do , the only port open is 80 for the website everything else is closed. I know i cant be unhackable with or without a website, but how bad is this idea, should I only host it for the few months i need it and just give URL to teacher and that is all or can i feel confidant to give it to my class and post it on social media?

 

Security is my biggest concern how safe really is it? 

[Eric++]

20 minutes ago, perkelator said:

Hey guys, I am wanting to host a web server from my house and have quite a few questions about it. This is for a college project.

I have a HP laptop with a I3 and 4 GB of RAM it is currently running on, I have LAMP set up and it is working fine so far. I need to do light PHP and SQL work on the server. but that should be about it. Is this good enough? I have a 2ed option and that is to take my old FX-6350 and buy a cheap mother board and GPU to make the server. I have the money for it just would be nice to spend else where.

 

How safe it is to host a website off my home network? I have firewalls on my server and my router. I have the option to host it on a DMZ what should I do , the only port open is 80 for the website everything else is closed. I know i cant be unhackable with or without a website, but how bad is this idea, should I only host it for the few months i need it and just give URL to teacher and that is all or can i feel confidant to give it to my class and post it on social media?

 

Security is my biggest concern how safe really is it? 

I can't speak much for the safety of the setup but I would image you'll be alright. But do you really need to access your web server from other networks? Usually for school projects I just run the server on the local network and type the IP address in.

 

As for the hardware side of this. You really shouldn't have any trouble on your laptop. Unless you plan on having a ton of traffic or some crazy demanding algorithms it should be fine. I hosted a web server off a raspberry pi and everything worked fine.

[perkelator]

1 minute ago, Eric++ said:

I can't speak much for the safety of the setup but I would image you'll be alright. But do you really need to access your web server from other networks? Usually for school projects I just run the server on the local network and type the IP address in.

I do not have to as a requirement, but I thought it would be nice to learn how to host my own web server I have had a lot of fun setting it up so far and feel like I am learning a lot from this. I know it wont be completely safe, just trying to be as safe as I can be. The class is online and the only way I know to share this with my instructor is by hosting it, 

6 minutes ago, Eric++ said:

As for the hardware side of this. You really shouldn't have any trouble on your laptop. Unless you plan on having a ton of traffic or some crazy demanding algorithms it should be fine. I hosted a web server off a raspberry pi and everything worked fine.

No is should be pretty simple.

[TheComputerdude]

14 hours ago, perkelator said:

Hey guys, I am wanting to host a web server from my house and have quite a few questions about it. This is for a college project.

I have a HP laptop with a I3 and 4 GB of RAM it is currently running on, I have LAMP set up and it is working fine so far. I need to do light PHP and SQL work on the server. but that should be about it. Is this good enough? I have a 2ed option and that is to take my old FX-6350 and buy a cheap mother board and GPU to make the server. I have the money for it just would be nice to spend else where.

 

How safe it is to host a website off my home network? I have firewalls on my server and my router. I have the option to host it on a DMZ what should I do , the only port open is 80 for the website everything else is closed. I know i cant be unhackable with or without a website, but how bad is this idea, should I only host it for the few months i need it and just give URL to teacher and that is all or can i feel confidant to give it to my class and post it on social media?

 

Security is my biggest concern how safe really is it? 

It will work just fine. It should be pretty secure as long as you don't do anything stupid. This is how most websites are set up. Giving out your URL won't make you uber hackable. If that was the case anybody could hack any website. Just make sure you have a strong password on your server and DONT tell anybody that password. Just to prevent somebody from sshing into the server or something.