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Dave writes: > Try http://www.freevirtualservers.com You get Free PHP, MySQL and 100 MB Web Space > and all you pay for is the Domain Name (which I guess you would have to pay for > anyway) - I have used these for a year for a site without any major issues and > found the company to be quite helpful when problems arose. > Regards, > Dave. They do look good Dave but I'm not sure 100 MB would be enough...then I wouldn't nescarily have to store the larger mp3s there. I could offer CDR's with the longer stuff on. Hmmm *thinks*.... > -----Original Message----- > From: list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: 05 July 2009 22:59 > To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [LUG] Hosting a site on my PC. > > 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. > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html