Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu Apr 29 17:17:18 CDT 2010
Do-able but insane. But look at the cost of basic hosting packages and trade that off against (roughly in order of priority): 1. your additional time to administer web and mail servers and especially to keep them fully patched and up to date. 2. the additional security risks in exposing your systems to the public 3. the additional demand on your limited bandwidth ( not just from website hits, but from the continuous probes you will be getting on your web and mail servers). At the moment, your mail provider is probably blocking a lot of spam from ever getting to colby.com - once you are runnning your own mail server, you will have to deal with it all. 4. the cost of using your resources (power, disk space, cpu cycles) - you may think it negligible, but wait until your domain gets hit by a spam flood :-( It just doesn't make sense!! OK maybe I'm biased since we have recently set up http://www.pngconnect.com :-) -- Stuart On 28 Apr 2010 at 9:39, jwcolby wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > dba-VB mailing list > dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb > http://www.databaseadvisors.com >