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&gt; 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&gt; 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Staffslug mailing list > > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > > http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug > > > > > -- > Andrew J. Edwards > www.andrewedwards.name > New Tel: 07888882734 >