Hosting from home is great

Natcoweb.com — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:59:31 +0000

Hosting from home is great for learning the ropes or just doing it as a hobby. But like you've said don't think of that for any of your business sites.
If you want a cost-effective and reliable solution, colocating your server may be an option, when for $65.00/mo + bandwidth costs you'll be able to get steady network.

Like i said at the

Greg K — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:13:42 +0000

Like i said at the beginning, if it was about cost, it would definitely be with a hosting company. What I am doing is my own hobby cost of shared hosting is WAY lower, and co-location of my server would be free at work in our data center.

I would never host a business site from here. I distrust Time Warner Cable that much, and even their business side has had issues with their crap in month I have been with them. Plus just about anything business wise, I would put at pair networks, as they are rock solid.

Yes the server I have available is overkill, like I said, I most likely will not place it online. Right now it is on a decent P4 system with 1.5 gigs of ram. Plenty decent for my hobby.

Again, the main point of this thread is to bring to light issues of hosting your own compared to paying for it somewhere. In the past few months I have had 3 people ask me about how to set up their own for their business because they didn't like the idea of paying a hosting company.

-Greg

It is something I would like

greg — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:42:45 +0000

It is something I would like to do, but similar to what Matt said, ISP's are often a large let down under normal circumstances.

Good luck though, if nothing else it will be interesting to do and manage.
Continue with the updates!

Why don't you build the

teammatt3 — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:39:15 +0000

Why don't you build the server, and ship it out to a datacenter? Depending on the DC, you could get 4U of space, an uplink, a few IPs, a couple amps, and "world class" support for $100-$200.

which has redundant everything from power supplies to fans (8 total i think), 4 drives, 4 CPU's

Wouldn't you consider that pretty much all overkill? Your single point of failure is going to be your ISP, and your power company.

I hosted a company website on their business class internet connection and power, and it was the stupidest thing I could have done. Unannounced power outages at night, and crappy internet connections through out the day was the norm. (In all fairness, a Wal-mart was being constructed a block away, but still).

I host a test server at my house, but no way would I do that for a company's website.