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On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Gibbs wrote:
On 07/08/11 22:39, Daniel Robinson wrote:The server is for fun for me at home and also eventually i'd like to sell web space to friends and friends of friends.You can get cheap hardware that will do a good job. Try start low with the aim of upgrading over time and always looks around and try and get the cheapest.The issue you will probably find is with your internet line. If you are using some sort of home "broadband package" your upload speeds will be miserably slow.
The first website went live 20 years ago... And at that time I was working for a company who had their own dedicated 64Kbps line from Bristol to their office in the US - who then had a 56Kbps line to "the internet"... Such that it was as the time...
64Kbps seemed fast at the time... Now my 800Kbps upload speed seems slow )-:
If the line isn't dedicated you using at home will also effect peoples connections. I have a backup NAS at home that syncs with a server at work (both on standard broadband lines) and its still trying to catch up after a month or so.
You can backup about 1GB overnight when the remote site has standard ADSL. Maybe push that that 2GB if they have 800Kbps uploading and you use compression.
I do lots of backups from remote sites overnight - and in some cases the data sets are 100's of GB, but using rsync keeps it all relatively sane... Until someone on a remote site renames a directory, then it all falls apart!!!
As someone else suggested your best bet would be an unmanaged VPS if you intend to serve websites for other people. I've found WizzVPS to be a reliable option on the cheap.
Sometimes it's nice to build something to get a better understanding though - then once you have an idea, you can use hosted stuff for commercial solutions - testing, experimenting locally before moving stuff off-site...
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