[dba-VB] hosting a website in-house

I agree wholeheartedly  

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 29 Apr 2010 at 8:38, Doug Steele wrote:

> 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.
>