Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Apr 29 18:26:20 CDT 2010
That is wrong Stewart. I have been hosting a web site or two for over 10 years and unless it is getting hit by 100 plus sessions the impact is low. Mind you, when you start having 100K hits then you are right. After the website is set up the administration costs in time and effort are low. Traditionally, unless the website is under heavy utilization maintenance is nothing... it just runs itself. Running your own IIS or Apache server does not imply being hit with spam or a security risk...that is what routers are for. As for costs of a stand-alone server, you can just use an old beater, running Linux... for any details post the question on the VB List as my son-in-law, who is now on that list, as he is the senior tech for a huge website business and can give you the skinny on how to cheaply build your own small hosting with all the bell and whistles. I would say host your own. It is a lot of fun to set up and run. Even my daughters can setup their own servers...so it just goes to show that real men and women roll their own. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:17 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA Subject: Re: [AccessD] [dba-VB] hosting a website in-house 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 > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com