I've finally gotten around to working out a static IP arrangement with Qwest so that I can host samoht.com out of my house. It required changing the ISP package I currently purchase from them to another package. It was a very time-consuming process, with lots of passing the buck, but hopefully within a few days I'll be rocking. The plan is to use sparky as my web server. Since sparky is a little low on disk space, I'll probably just run Tomcat for now, since it's a JSP engine that can also act as an HTTP server, thus killing two birds with one stone. Sparky may also host the mySQL database as well, but I may decide to let buzz do that instead.
I've already got a cheesy little JSP set up to prove that I can get at DB content via the mySQL JDBC driver and render it into HTML. It works great. My plan is to make several sections of the site more dynamic, and add some sections that I've always wanted (like a fitness log). I'm going to start with a photo album application, since my current photo albums, and my artwork pages, are coded entirely in JavaScript, and that bugs me.
