Re: scarcity of PHP5 hosting

In article <rredncvGXaxNjm7bnZ2dnUVZ_tCrnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
jstucklex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jerry Stuckle) wrote:


Given todays broadband speedss and the availability of 'no
surcharge ' fixed IP addresses, why not do as I did and spend
less than $350 on a Linux PC and host it all from home..its more
han enough for all low traffic stuff, and if you are pushing
gigabytes a day, why then host your own machine in someone else's
facility.

Agreed.

And what do you do when your power goes out or your phone line goes
down? Also does your ISP allow hosting of websites (many don't,
and although they don't block port 80, putting up a website can
cause them to cut your service).
My ISP knows exactly what I'm doing, in fact, he even gave me 6 IPs
The server is Sitting on it UPS, the ADSL Router is on a UPS, if I get a
power outage, my pages continue to be served.

Additionally, most home ISP's have fast download times, but
relatively slow upload times - often times a 10:1 ratio or more.
For instance, my cable provider brags about 6Mb/s download speeds.
But upload speeds are around 300Kb/s. They just don't tell you
that, because the typical user will never notice (a request for a
page is MUCH shorter than the page itself). But if you put a
webserver there, now you have 300Kb/s download and 6Mb/s upload.
Not what potential customers want to see.

Agreed in principal Jerry, but with low traffic sites, and avoiding
things like Flash and large images, at 300kbps a predominantly text/html
page will still load quickly. I don't want to sit through a Flash
presentation/intro every time I go to a site, and I expect my few
visitors will think the same way. It is the scourge of the WWW.

To come back on topic, if you are running a business from your website,
and it is making you some money, then hosting is worthwhile and is a
legitimate business expense, offsettable against income/company tax. If
like me you do it for fun and self improvement, and you already have all
the kit you need, don't waste money.


- Steve
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