On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:09:07 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> Web hosting?
>>>
>>> You *can* host a website from a laptop in your house, connected to the
>>> Internet via ADSL. I've done it. But it works *really* badly...
>> 
>> I do it today on 3 Mbps ADSL, works OK for my uses.  Largely depends on
>> the traffic you're expecting (and that you ultimately get).  Your site
>> must've been *really* popular. ;-)
> 
> More like... my site is only available when I remember to turn my laptop
> back on. (And when my mum doesn't turn it off because the whirring of
> the fan is annoying her. Or because she's whining about how much
> electricity it uses.)

Makes sense.  I actually moved to a new server for my own website because 
the fan on the old one was driving me crazy. :-)

And I didn't have enough memory really for what the system was doing.

> Actually, 98% of my traffic consisted of HTTP GET requests for a URL
> that's about 64 KB long... so, I'm guessing it's trying to exploit some
> sort of buffer overrun vulnerability? (Which Apache presumably doesn't
> have.)

Well, it may have one, but not the one that was being tried. :-)

Jim

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