Doug Steele
dbdoug at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 10:38:27 CDT 2010
Basically the answer is 'Easy', but possibly 'Insane' as well :) There's the usual learning curve. I've only used IIS as my sites have been .NET. Do you have a fixed IP address? If not, you'll have to deal with the possibility that your IP will change from time to time. You will also have to think about security - I'd be leery of running a website on my main development machine... Once you've got a site exposed to the wild, naughty people will be interested. That said, I've been running a site using .NET login security for a year or so with no problems. Doug On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:39 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>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 > >