Not exactly what you would expect to be hosting a website, but this is the laptop that is currently hosting everything you see here on www.AlexGalloway.com. It is silent 24/7, has a battery in case of power failure, and is so small, I sometimes forget it is here! Laptops that are missing screens make perfect servers!

It makes things so much easier when you have three screens at your disposal, even if they are small ones like these. From here I write all of the HTML, CSS, PHP, & Javascript that runs everything here. I plan on doing some serious upgrades to my equipment by the end of the year. It is long overdue.

New router configuration. Notice the Linksys wireless router doesn't have it's "Internet" light on... It isn't the router. It is only a wifi access point now. The router is actually a VPN Firewall from Netgear (its the nice lookin' box on the bottom with a dent on the left). Then you can see an old Docsis 2 Comcast modem.

The Pentium-4 tower in the center used to be my SSL server when I owned Chittamstick.com. It was 256-bit encrypted with a self-signed ssl certificate. Since it was self-signed, You would be given a warning page from your browser, asking you to add my key to use encryption. I had both http, and https servers, with different content on each and many subdomains, like secure.chittamstick.com, & ie.chittamstick.com which told Internet Explorer users to get a browser that didn't suck lol! I will eventually buy an ssl key from a verified provider so it will be trusted across the web as verified to be secure. In this pic, you can also see the switch (low center)- it connects everything to the main router across the house via a 50ft Cat6 cable through the floor. It keeps my data secure, not over wifi. :).

A front-side view of the servers. If you are wondering why on earth I have all of those Netgear routers, hubs, firewalls and switches... well- I bought them all on eBay [20+ of them] all at once (except for the huge gray D-link hub on the bottom, and a couple others). So if you would like one cheap... lets say 5 bucks, it's yours. Sound good? It should!

Old Piece of crap Acer Aspire that I used to use to host my website, but now I use it to write the code on my website.

Setting up LAMP after Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 was installed. This is done all in the command line interface, with no graphical user interface.

Broadcasting to the Internet for the first time! Establishing my web presence.

Remote Management. From my bedroom via my badass netbook- because I had the server connected to the router in the living room...