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Do you host a web server at home?

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Re: Do you host a web server at home?

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Post by jameswyse »

I do, but just for web development and in-house apps.

It's possible to run a website from your home but there is a lot to consider..

- Does your ISP allow this? - Do you have enough upload bandwidth to deal with your expected load? - Do you have a static IP address (otherwise you can host your DNS elsewhere and use a Dynamic DNS program to update it)

So it's possible but unless it's something that's not that important, I wouldn't bother. You miss out on a lot of the standard features of dedicated hosting providers such as redundant power, multiple redundant uplinks and hardware support.

Re: Do you host a web server at home?

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Post by akr »

I host my Blog on a SheevaPlug from home. Additionally it runs an IMAP Server and some development stuff. In combination with the ARM Port of Archlinux it works pretty well - even with the small uplink my 2Mbit connection offers.

Re: Do you host a web server at home?

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Post by cantbecool »

mirceagoia wrote: post #4
cantbecool wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking too. A coworker set up a home web server on an old C2D Dell machine, and when I ping it, it's responding quicker than the host I'm using.

Does your ISP allow you to have a web server at home? Some don't unless you pay more.

I'm certain it, Comcast, allows incoming port 80 get requests, but it is certainly frowned upon.

Re: Do you host a web server at home?

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Post by mmx »

I currently run an entire startup in my garage, this includes routers, webserver, database servers, UPS's, etc, all hand built by the way. I work on it with 3 other guys who live 45 minutes to 4 hours away. We've bootstrapped this thing in a way that I'll have to write about once we're funded. I'm currently located in Virginia, and there is a mountain behind my house thats on fire about two miles away. I've been battling smoke for the last 48 hours. Operating out of your own house is amazingly convenient and a large undertaking at the same time. I both love and hate it, but most of all I've learned from it. Also, I'm running everything off of a Comcast Business Class connection, which was able to handle a LifeHacker post (10K visits in about 5 hours), so if Comcast frowns on my setup they haven't mentioned anything yet.

Re: Do you host a web server at home?

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Post by dirkdeman »

I used to, but shared hosting is less than 20 euros a year, a Decent VPS is use costs a little more: about 60 euros a year. For this kind of pocket change I can worry about other things than setting up and maintaining a web server. Doing it myself was a fun and good learning experience, though!

Re: Do you host a web server at home?

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Post by cantbecool »

dirkdeman wrote: post #17

I used to, but shared hosting is less than 20 euros a year, a Decent VPS is use costs a little more: about 60 euros a year. For this kind of pocket change I can worry about other things than setting up and maintaining a web server. Doing it myself was a fun and good learning experience, though!

That's exactly what I was thinking. At work I'll set up production servers all the time, but I'd enjoy knowing I have a personal web server running in my closet.

Re: Do you host a web server at home?

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Post by cantbecool »

mmx wrote: post #16

I currently run an entire startup in my garage, this includes routers, webserver, database servers, UPS's, etc, all hand built by the way. I work on it with 3 other guys who live 45 minutes to 4 hours away. We've bootstrapped this thing in a way that I'll have to write about once we're funded. I'm currently located in Virginia, and there is a mountain behind my house thats on fire about two miles away. I've been batt…

Awesome, I'm going to run it off of Comcast's network as well. I hope the fire shortly stops, mmx. Sounds like you're in a rock and a hard place right now. We just need Mother Nature's intervention.
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