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by techxan

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My brother in law wants to set up (in MY House!) a....I dont know what to call it.. He wants to host a few vanity web sites, and set up modems to allow family members to use this as their ISP. He is gonna build the web sites, I'll manage the wholemess.

He is figuring drop a DSL (or do we need fractional T1?), place a router, rack mount a few modems, throw in a server with IIS and we're up! I figure on a really good UPS as well, just to start.

Seems to me that he has a case of the simples..but I am interested in it from a geek standpoint.

BUT...don't we need incomming lines for all those modems?

If he does this, can we add phone service? Is that what PBX is? Or do you just plug in digital phones? (could'nt be that simple!!)

I realise that there are software issues to figure out, and liscenses, ect, but those bridges in due time.

Since he is bored, not broke, and footing the bill, just how hard is it to set up this deal? Any sources of info I can pursue?

Thanks.

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by hasse mcse/brainbench

Hi!

You'll need a bunch of incoming lines!
As many users as you'd like to be able to connect at the same time, that's how many incoming lines you'll need.

As server and such I'd recommend running a Linux setting up a Squid Proxy as http caching server.

Letting the Linux do masquerading.

Regards
/Hasse

by avachon

Hi, it's true, you'd need many incoming lines but you could maintain a couple of separate lines that were dedicated to your phones (you don't need a pbx system in your home). You'd need a domain name, a static IP address, if you run IIS, you need ntserver (and a thorough knowledge of both); firewall protection. You bandwidth (DSL or fractional T1 depends on how many simultaneous users you expect (figure out your loads because that also will help you figure out the hardware makeup of your server, types of drives, raid capabiility if necessary, etc.). If you expect a lot of users, fractional T1 can be upgraded - and do you homework on fees. Search under ISP; there are sites dedicated to ISPs-info, newletters, whitepapers, etc. I suppose this comes to how much time do you have, how much money does he have and what is your (and his) expertise with the products at this point. If he's footing the bill, make sure you have a good contract stating that and know what the implications are of hosting this from your house. Hope this helps. Good luck.

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