Discover features and ideas
Tired of paying for services (or their statistics), I decided, over a weekend, to create and provide a platform that anyone can use at home or at a business level (it took me 4 hours after dinner to create a virtual machine, install the operating system and applications, configure and make the website available).
You need a permanent internet connection, but without a fixed IP address (cable, ADSL, fiber or other) at home, and a machine that can be an old laptop (1 core, 4 GB of RAM and 40 GB of disk). In this first version (already available), a virtual machine is configured and installed with: Operating System, Firewall, Database and Application for creating and managing websites with the ability to support e-commerce (Visa and PayPal), control of views and object permissions and all access and navigation statistics of the associated website.
Example of resources available for a website:
> Group of links to social networks and others,
> Photo gallery, associated with:
—> Locations (with map),
—> Products
—> any others of your choice
> Gallery of products and services to be marketed
> Viewing permissions in galleries to control downloads and views.
It can thus concentrate information from social networks in order to conduct e-commerce under total control.
Systems for running virtual machines are available for free or as open source. The chosen format allows integration and availability in any of them (Oracle VM, VMware, Xen, etc.).
Dynamic addressing is a router configuration and can be assigned for free by several websites (No-IP is one of them), providing a valid address with permanent access. It can then be integrated into a public DNS of a registered domain (your name or brand).
Soon, I intend to add the following services: Domain Name Server (DNS), Email Server, Messaging and Calling, and File Server. This means that all standard commercial services are covered.
The machine provided will only need to have its IP address changed (1 command) and the web server reconfigured (4 file changes). Router reconfiguration may be necessary (placing the machine in the DMZ).
If you don’t know how, I will explain and provide the access credentials that need to be changed to yours free of charge.
Note: Registering a domain and configuring it for a residential address takes less than 15 minutes.
Machine credentials: vitor / vitor with sudoer.