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I'm thinking of buying a Cobalt Qube2, or maybe
possibly-but-probably-not a Raq3. I want to set up a webserver at home, I
have various reasons for doing this...but anyway, I wasn't able to find answers
flat out enough to meet my needs so I'm turning to you guys. Some of these
questions may seem rather ignorant, I apologize for that, I'm new to the
webserver world. And many of the features on the Cobalt web site aren't
thoroughly explained, and I don't understand implications since I'm still
learning this stuff.
1) DNS names, I talked to a techie at
networksolutions, and they said that I must have a primary and secondary DNS
entry. Which would mean I have to have two seperate servers...is this
true? It sounds pretty obscure to me.
2) If I have a DSL line, which is dedicated
of course, but my ISP provides a DYNAMIC IP address...will DHCP automatically
change the server IP to match it? And if so, wouldn't my DNS entry in
networksolutions (for the primary and secondary IPs) be different than my actual
IP? Or would that change automatically?
3) How many domain names can I host on a
Qube2? I want to be able to have, lets say, 5 domains. me.com,
you.com, they.com, us.com, and i.com (just made them up). Can I have
seperate web pages for each domain, as well as seperate FTP access to each one
and pop3 e-mail boxes for each domain?
I guess my questions are pretty basic. I know
there are a lot of people on this list who have major problems with their
current servers, and these may seem quite elementary...but I'm really interested
in getting the ball rolling here.
Thanks guys!
-Ben
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