[AccessD] hosting a website in-house

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


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Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:40 AM
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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.

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John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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