Re: [Staffslug] Self server hosting
get a domain from anywhere.. that doesn't make a damn bit of
difference.. i'm pretty sure they're standard rate of $10.. but take
your nameservers in house (simply because you'll have much more
control, and it doesn't take much system resources to do so..)
On 02/10/06, Andrew Edwards <edwards.andrew(a)gmail.com> wrote:
i pay absolutely nothing, a friend in wisconsin hosts several
servers
which well.. he gave me root on in exchange for help! but i definetly
reccomend american bandwidth, price cannot be beaten and the QOS..
well the lowest uptime i have (this includes the connection, as it's
an IRC server and a Teamspeak server) was 152 days upon my last weekly
checkup me thinks..
On 02/10/06, Russ Phillips <russ(a)phillipsuk.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:54 +0100, Alex Thomas wrote:
> > would you recommend doing it? as adsl only has 256kbs upload speed so
> > not alot of running serveral sites..
>
> I wouldn't recommend running a server from an ADSL line *unless* it
> doesn't matter how available it is. There are *no* quality of service
> guarantees with ADSL - if the line drops every 5 minutes for 10 seconds,
> there's no comeback.
>
> Been there, done that. Gave up, and now pay for a virtual server.
> $20/month to Linode or £15/month to Bytemark. Well worth it, in my
> opinion, as long as you don't need anything too fancy.
>
> Russ
>
>
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