[dba-VB] hosting a website in-house

I have been doing this  for my work admin site for years.  I use abbyss web
server (free + paid option) with filezilla.

Never had any problems.  I use access to parse the info of the cretins who
try to break in. Some of their attempts at guessing the password is
laughable.  They get logged and their ips rejected  for a pre-determined
period after x attempts.

No problems. Not heavy traffic.  Server is bog standard low grade cheap PC
(about 5 years old now) with 2 cards, one for the network, one for the
router.  Contents get rebuild overnight for freshness the next day.

Easy, cheap and does the job.

Max
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:40 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; VBA
Subject: [dba-VB] 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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