[Xitami] FW: Website using Xitami

[Spyman]

I was using Zonealarm but Mindspring gave me a free copy of Norton Personal
Firewall. I also think that I should have a firewall. I only uninstalled it
the once to see if it made a difference.

Is there a way to find out if port 80 is blocked with the ISP? Is this
something I can ask them? The only thing about this question is that some
people can get in every time.

I haven't tried to redirect it to another port such as 4080, which I can do
through the router setup and Xitami.

I only run Xitami without any of the addons. The family tree software spits
out the webpages so I can copy them into the webpages directory and have
them available.

-----Original Message-----
From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
[mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of evan heller
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:06 PM
To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
Subject: Re: [Xitami] FW: Website using Xitami


Ok, a few things here:

First off you should always have a firewall ESPECIALLY if your on a
broadband
connection. My suggestion the freeware ZoneAlarm (www.zonealarm.com)  is
both
easy to use and install.

Second, I use both dynamic ip addresses on my server as well as my server
not
being dedicated and it acts JUST fine.

I use ZoneEdit (www.zoneedit.com) and the DirectUpdate engine for updating
the ip address. There have been no problems OTHER than the fact that most
isp's block port 80, forcing me to redirect all port 80 traffic to port 4080
which I accomplished easily using ZonEedit.

Now, as far as the speed of xitami is concerned, yes it's fast but a fast
webserver gets easily bogged down once you start to add things like PHP,
MySQL or ASP emulation. So depending on how much use you are getting out of
it and how fast your dsl is, it better to be safe than sorry.

Just my 2 cents.


-Evan

Bruce wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:45:25 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Thanks.
> >
> >1. I tried uninstalling it but got the same exact result.
> >
> >2. Is a static ip necessary? I use TZO to update the DNS records with my
> >current ip. It checks it once a minute.
>
>    The simple fact is, the fewer redirects you have, the better.
>
> One other thought occurred to me. Do you have power saving
> features turned on? If you do, you might wanna turn them off.
> My experience, and the experience of others is that all they do
> is get in the way.
>
>    Like the other person says, it sounds like you have multiple
> problems.
>
>    Also, if your server isn't dedicated, you might wanna make
> it so. Strip it down software wise, don't put anything on it
> that isn't necessary for WEB management.
>
>    Xitami is fast, there is NO reason to use such a powerful
> machine as you describe. It's a waste really,  all you really
> need for top performance is any computer capable of
> handling a PCI NIC. I run mine on a 586 dx4 100, it just putts
> along in my backroom. I then use another computer for my
> personal use.
>
> Hope this helps..
>
> ITL, Bruce


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