[AccessD] hosting a website in-house

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Apr 29 17:23:11 CDT 2010


What's your domain?

-- 
Stuart

> 
> Hmmm,
> 
> Never touch mine. Cost me zero minutes each week.  Cant even remember what
> OS it uses. It just sits there and works.
> Files get updated overnight by batch files calling executables etc and also
> over the network.
> 
> Max
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of dw-murphy at cox.net
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:55 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Cc: Rocky Smolin
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] hosting a website in-house
> 
> If you time is worth anything using a hosting service is the way to go.
> Seems like keeping up with security, patches, etc is a continuing education
> that really doesn't help access development. If this is a hobby go for it.
> 
> Doug
> 
> ---- Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: 
> > I have my web sites hosted by GoDaddy.  It's really cheap, very reliable,
> > requires no work on my part (probably the leading reason to go outside),
> and
> > no worries about my equipment being up.  And their customer support is
> > outstanding.
> > 
> > So the question is, what is the advantage of hosting your own website
> versus
> > buying a hosting service outside?
> > 
> > R
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:40 AM
> > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA
> > Subject: [AccessD] hosting a website in-house
> > 
> > I just need a reality check as to whether trying to host a website
> in-house
> > is insane, doable, easy, difficult?  If I did this it would be for my own
> > web site (very low traffic), and would need to include email (also low
> > traffic).  If I lost internet (which I get over the local cable) then
> > obviously I would be out of commission for the duration of that outage.
> > 
> > I have been in this home / office for close to four years and have had
> only
> > one single extended outage (11 hours, due to weather).
> > 
> > I have a server that I keep up 24/7.  I have battery backup etc.  I run
> VMs
> > and it seems like I could put something like this in a VM so that I could
> > move it to another machine if I had a machine issue.
> > 
> > I am actively considering building a new server with 16 or 24 cores
> because
> > it would be a big boost for my SQL Server work and with so many cores it
> > seems like having a VM running my web site might make sense.
> > 
> > --
> > John W. Colby
> > www.ColbyConsulting.com
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