Well, Dells are very nice, but I much prefer the power of the Opteron. The problem is that there are still too few dedicated server providers that supply them. The next desktop machine will be a...

Certainly a DSL/cable router is going to be a big benefit - but you'd still have to port forward to the appropriate machine if you use NAT. Alternatively you could buy a block of public IPs from...

For people to access your Teamspeak server from the Internet, you'll need to open up the appropriate ports and do port forwarding. Do you have a firewall on the PC that's attached to the ADSL modem?...

I'm wondering if this could be an MTU problem, as I remember reading something like happening before. So I've Googled and came across this interesting post on another site (with apologies to those...

There IS a beta add-on for cPanel which can be used to maintain gameservers (see http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=30272 and http://cpgs.cpanel.net/) (http://cpgs.cpanel.net/%29), but as I've...

What exactly are the permissions on that directory? If it's a UNIX box of some description you should be able to see what permissions (they'll look a bit like this: -rw-r----) you have in your FTP...

You may want to take a look at this - it's a very useful guide:

http://kavlon.org/index.php/logrotate

M.

How long is a piece of string? But seriously, what kind of applications are you likely to be developing for this server? What sort of demand can you see it having? As you've said you'll be developing...

CentOS is a decent distribution. It should be noted that you should be using the ia32e (EMT64) kernel rather than the x86_64 kernel if you're going down the CentOS 3.x route. I'm not too sure about...

Are you sure that the wireless device is definately getting 127.0.0.1 from the DHCP server? Is the device definately set-up to obtain IP address automatically within it's network settings? What...

Perhaps another thing you could try, if your router supports it, is uPnP. This makes it much easier for an application to "punch" the appropriate ports in the firewall automatically for you for a...

How have you set-up the wireless configuration?

M.

Well, certainly nothing unusual about that. It would suggest that me that there is something on your computer that's slowing it down. Have you shut down all unnecessary programs, done a virus and...

Traceroutes would be helpful. In Windows, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt. Type 'tracert www.daniweb.com' into it and post the results.

M.

jack720 - you've definately ensured that both machines are set-up for ad-hoc rather than infrastructure mode? And have you enabled or disabled WEP/WPA/any other encryption protocols? If enabled,...

You'll need DNS to resolve the domain name to IP addresses, where to point mail and so forth. I would recommend somewhere like EasyDNS or ZoneEdit fo that particular reason. Nice web-front ends to...

Servers? For Linux, Windows or Mac? Well, there's obviously Apache (http://httpd.apache.org) which is the de facto web server which has binaries for both Linux and Windows. There's also the Xitami...

Yes, you should be able to access it just fine.

Regards,

Martyn

http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php is highly recommended here.

Regards,

Martyn

I work for a film VFX company and we utilise several hundred Linux machines to render all of our work. This can involve using multiple machines to work on one single frame, or to render a batch of...

One of the disadvantages of the ADSL platform is that because it's asymetrical, you're not going to be taking full advantage of the bandwidth available (since you'll be serving files through your...

The only other thing I can suggest is to get the ISP's details (IP address, gateway, netmask, DNS,etc.) and bung them in manually within the WAN settings of your router and then give it a good old...

I'd imagine that you have your DNS settings in your OS to obtain IP and DNS servers automatically.

One thing to check - what's the DNS settings on the router set to? I've found that sometimes you...

Another one is http://www.findyourhost.co.uk, which is good if you're in the UK and looking for a UK-based host.

Regards,

Martyn

And try to talk to existing customers of the hosts you're eyeing up. Visit the hosts' customer forums if they have any and judge for yourself whether or not they're doing a good job. It pays to do...

VeriSign?! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ;) But seriously I've had so many problems with them. They seriously mucked up one domain I had with them, to the extent they gave me another four years...

Oh, I do agree with this and it's a great point to make. One good example of this is 1&1 (who, in the USA, are currently offering free web hosting - but it's a different story this side of the big...

Although many hosts will do a deal which include a domain name with the hosting package.

Regards,

Martyn

I've done my fair share of host testing over the years (and even worked for some of them!), and of all the companies that I have felt the most comfortable with (before moving over to my own dedicated...

I've got good things to say about Draytek routers - they support VPN pass-thru (as well as handling their VPN connectivity with IPSec, L2TP, L2TP over IPSec and PPTP) and are quite solid boxes. See...