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Re: [LUG] Hosting a site on my PC.

 

jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Julian Hall writes: 
>
>   
>> Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
>>     
>>> Yes, it�s perfectly possible; there�s no particular reason why you can�t
>>> run server software on a desktop (unlike Windows, where you often can�t
>>> because of licence stuff).
>>>   
>>>       
>> Not so in my experience. I've run IIS on Windows 2000 Pro quite happily 
>> and as it's an internal component to Windows there are no licensing 
>> issues. That was IIS3 and I believe the current incarnation (Vista et 
>> al) is IIS 5.
>>     
>>> No, I wouldn�t particularly recommend it; for a start, ADSL is (as the
>>> name suggests) asynchronous � much, much more download than upload
>>> bandwidth, so actually serving a site is going to be quite slow and may
>>> also interfere with your normal usage.
>>>       
>> Not forgetting your ISP's 'Fair Usage' policy. If they decide that (even 
>> incoming) traffic to your IP is too heavy they might decide to clobber 
>> you for it.
>> Kind regards,
>>     
>
> I'm not expecting masses of traffic. The cheepest offer I could find for 
> hosting and domain names was around £60.00. Now If I could do the same by 
> just doing the IP fowarding and other things explaines it works out a lot 
> cheeper. Yes it will be an interesting learning excercise also but it's 
> mostly because I can't justify the £60.00 on a website to my wife. Thanks 
> for the advise about doing this.
>
>   
one.com - you can get hosting and domain starting from less than £10 per 
year!

Dave

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