Slow webserver workaround?

[karan]

Hi there,

A few months ago I built a server from spare parts I had accumulated over some time. I loaded it up with gentoo and installed serendipity, a web blogging system.

The problem is, the server is very slow 250mhz and i'm starting college soon and I won't be able to keep up with security patches, however I still want a weblog.

So this is what I propose. I want to utilise the space I was given by my ISP, even though I can't install any web applications on their server, they still provide me with HTML service. I want my server to automatically tarball the HTML files it generates for the website and tarball them. I want it to then send the tarball to my account on my ISP's ftp server.


So basically, -

-I update the webpage, it generates a blog entry in its mysql database
-apache generates HTML pages when the webpage is accessed, I need those HTML's tarballed
-sent to my account with my ISP
-untar'd on the server

why go through all that trouble? because I can't install web applications on my ISP's servers, and I don't have the power to serve my blogpage on a 128kbit upstream connection. Any idea's on how I could do any of those steps would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Karan
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