mrowton — Sat, 08 May 2004 02:48:12 +0000

My ISP allows me any inbound services, provided I don't go over bandwidth limit and dont spread viruses / other bad things.

teammatt3 — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:52:18 +0000

thanks, I think I want to set up a picture sharing file thing

mairving — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:36:51 +0000

Getting back to your original question about bandwidth, it is very difficult to gauge. It depends greatly on your site. Does it have a lot of visitors, images, downloadable files, etc.? If it is mostly text with a few images and not many visitors, your bandwidth would be very minimal.

mairving — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:22:39 +0000

Just check with them first. Most of the times they don't really do anything unless you are consuming a lot of bandwidth or sharing mp3's or other files.

You can still setup a server at home to run locally accessed by computers in your local LAN for development of sites, etc. To do so once your system is built, you will need to load either Linux or BSD on it. During install, it will ask what programs to install and you can install PHP, MySQL and Apache. ASP is not a free option so I would forget about it. CPanel is not a good option since it is quite expensive to run on just one server unless you are hosting other accounts. If you go with Linux, Fedora or Mandrake are probably the easiest to install. My preference tends to go towards FreeBSD or Slackware.

You aren't bugging me. I am just trying to tell you all that you need to know before you decide to undertake this endeavor.

teammatt3 — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:54:41 +0000

well I guess I can't, sorry to bug you

mairving — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:53:28 +0000

What kind of connection (Cable, DSL, T1)? If using Cable or DSL, most ISP's can cancel your account with them since running a webserver violates their TOS.

teammatt3 — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:51:12 +0000

I am building my own, and hosting my own

mairving — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:27:25 +0000

Are you talking about a dedicated server or buying/building your own?

If you are going to buy/build your own, are you going to have it as a COLO (located at a server farm somewhere) or do you plan on hosting it yourself?