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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/21/07 00:42
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> lawrence k wrote:
>> On Sep 12, 5:28 pm, Herb <her...@mail.com> wrote:
>>> Why do so many hosting services only offer PHP4? That's even true for
>>> Yahoo.
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>> Another option is to find a place that offers you your own server, for
>> cheap. Hostway.com is offering dedicated servers for as little as $99
>> a month. I got a server from them with Ubuntu on it. I was very
>> pleased to have my own server, for so little money. The last company
>> that I worked at had their servers from (was renting) from
>> RackSpace for $550 a month. Compared to that, Hostway seems cheap. Of
>> course, Hostway is not offering the awesome level of customer service
>> that RackSpace offers, but most of the time I don't need it.
>>
>> Once you've got your own server, you can do anything you want with
>> it.
>>
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> Given todays broadband speedss and the availability of 'no surcharge '
> fixed IP addresses, why not do as I did and spend less than $350 on a
> Linux PC and host it all from home..its more han enough for all low
> traffic stuff, and if you are pushing gigabytes a day, why then host
> your own machine in someone else's facility.
And what do you do when your power goes out or your phone line goes
down? Also does your ISP allow hosting of websites (many don't, and
although they don't block port 80, putting up a website can cause them
to cut your service).
Additionally, most home ISP's have fast download times, but relatively
slow upload times - often times a 10:1 ratio or more. For instance, my
cable provider brags about 6Mb/s download speeds. But upload speeds are
around 300Kb/s. They just don't tell you that, because the typical user
will never notice (a request for a page is MUCH shorter than the page
itself). But if you put a webserver there, now you have 300Kb/s
download and 6Mb/s upload. Not what potential customers want to see.
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