I am located in Nicaragua.
I have always wanted to be an ISP and decided to build a tiny one at home. If possible?
So I bought a Domain Name with Lycos Europe.
I set up two Internet conections at home: On one desk I had a Cable-Modem and on another desk an ADSL; both 256Kbps.
I set up two computers on Cable-Modem and two computers on ADSL. (This was like a LAB.)
All four had 1GB RAM and 3.+GHZ and enough hard disk space.
The ADSL conection had two IPs, public or fixed.
I have Windows XP SP2 on all 4 computers and The one I decided to serve webpages, FTP and Mail, had, besides windows, Apache, PHP, MySQL.
With the help of Dreamweaver MX 2004, I designed a simple webpage with links to a group of complex webpages. I thought that loading the first or index.html page had to be easy.
Then I decided to install an e-commerce page like os-commerce, another one called Zen-cart, plus PHPBB2 and finally added moodle.
When you enter the website you will see a group of links that take you to all this programs.
With the help of
www.netwinsite.com
from New Zealand I got SergeFTP and SurgeMail, they are a FTP server and a powerfull Mail server. As FTP client I used FILEZILLA and as Mail Client I used EUDORA. Eudora has worked very fine, you can get mail from anywhere because the IMAP port is seldom blocked by ISPs and samething applies to SMTP.
Having all set I bought SimpleDNSPlus from same website and set up a zone with my MX, NS, A records. I used to check if everything was OK visitting
www.dnsstuff.com
and all appeared to be OK.
Since at home we all have refrigerators, I decided I should have a computer turned on and did my calculations and It should cost me some US$30.00 per month to have it working 24 hours a day.
All set I decided to go public and I did. I decided it was about time to cancel the Cable-Modem conection and keep the ADSL, which is a little faster
I have a friend in Costa Rica and another in USA and a good friend that owns a small cybercafe in the capital city of my country.
Results as of today 19 of April, 2006.
My friends can see the webpage, fast; even faster than professional websites, they can do FTP and send and recieve Mail; I even setup an account with Hotmail and works fine; I tried to redirect mail and works fine.
However, those goodies happen when I am at the computer or I restart the computer, when I leave the computer for at least 1 1/2 hours, It will not serve webpages, it will not repond to FTP and it will not receive Mail. When this happens I go to the computer, check all configuration, check all logs and then call my friends and everything starts to work again.
I disabled the firewall, there is no saving of energy.
Any Ideas?
I thought about temperature, electric current, amplify the ADSL signal, change my Operating System. buy a true Server, change the fastEthernet card; in sum I am going crazy and will never give up. I will never accept that ISPs can not be at home, because I think that is where the future is pointing at!!!!!!!.
Regards to all.
franco190453
