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

 

jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
What exactly do you want on the site?

I use Heart Internet (www.heartinternet.co.uk) and they have a basic 
hosting account for about £30 a year and it gives me plenty of space 
(about 5GB or so) and loads of bandwidth (20GB a month or so).  IIRC 
that includes a domain and 1,000 individual mailboxes too.

I'm sure though you could find something much cheaper, 1&1 have some 
rather cheap offers, IIRC they start from about £1.99 a month which 
gives you 250MB web space and 3GB bandwidth.  You'd have to buy a domain 
on top but they sell .co.uk domains for £2.49 per year (I'm pretty 
certain the minimum is 2 years).

Ta,

Rob


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