RE: Email And WebServer

["Ray Barnett" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

>1. WWW server preferably supporting multiple web sites (not sure
how
>this is acheived, do I need a seperate IP address for each site?)

You don't need multiple IP addresses, and you don't need to use Linux or
any
third party software either. If you are planning to use Windows 2000
Server,
then the inbuilt IIS supports this requirement out of the box. I use this
to
provide www.trackaddict.com, www.trilby.biz and www.felthead.com from
my
Win2K server (not a huge amount of current content though as you may
notice
;-) ). It's very easy to setup.

>2. Email Server that is completely stand alone collecting email
from

You say you want to use Exchange. That's what Exchange does. I don't use
it
personally because its resource requirements are hooge.

As far as running over an ADSL connection goes... I do. I wouldn't if
my
websites had any commercial value though because as people point out,
if
things go wrong, BT are crap at fixing it. However, it is perfectly fine
to
run email from it provided you know at least one other person also
running
their own email server. I have my DNS setup to use a friend's mail server
as
a backup - if my line goes down, mail is sent to his server, stored in
a
POP3 mailbox, and my server picks it up later when my line comes back.
It
works very well.

As far as hacking IIS goes - said friend who provides my backup mail
server
happens to host a commercial web site using IIS. It has been hacked
successfuly once in 2 years, which doesn't seem too bad. Site was down for
a
couple of hours because of it.

HTH, Ray Barnett.





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