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Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/22/07 22:36
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Sanders Kaufman wrote:
>>> "Steve" <j80k-vpfc@dea.spamcon.org> wrote in message
>>> news:memo.20070922111221.5836D@rook.127.0.0.1...
>>>
>>>> Basically we're agreeing ;-)
>>>> In short we are both saying..
>>>> Got income ? = Get hosting.
>>>>
>>>> There is nothing even remotely business orientated on my sites. I'm an
>>>> electronics engineer. This really is, 'just for kicks' :-)
>>>>
>>>> ergo: no income = DIY
>>>
>>> Not to just be disagreeable - but that's not what I'm saying.
>>> I'm saying that if you really want to take the hobby seriously, you
>>> gotta have pro hosting.
>>>
>>> A home server is fine for learning on, but a pro server is where you
>>> put that learning into practice.
>>> It's the difference between riding one of those arcade skiing
>>> machines, and actually skiing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Where does pro hosting start?
>>
>>
>> I've RUN a pro host. Its essentially no different from what I have at
>> home.
>>
>> Sure eventually we RAIDED it and put dual ISP feeds on it..
>>
>> But it was earning us over $20,000 a year on just a 256K feed..
>>
>> Today I can get that over my phone line EASILY.
>>
>> In real terms the likelihood of phone or power outage is low: here
>> anyway. In fact over the last year my ISP has been down more often
>> than my computers have. That means I am no worse off.
>>
>
> In the real world, over the last 10 years, my home goes out several
> times a year. Probably 80% or more are short - 5 minutes or less, and
> covered by the UPS. The longest was 5 days when the remnants of a
> hurricane came through. I lose power for an extended period (1 hour or
> more) about once a year.
>
> My cable is out more often; probably once a month or so. Again, most
> are short. but at least twice a year I lose it for an hour or more. Of
> course, I don't know if that went down if I'm in bed or not home, so
> it's probably much more than that.
>
>> For many many sites with high content into a niche market, where
>> traffic is pretty low, home hosting wins hands down, especially if
>> there is a lot of site development going on.
>>
>> OK if one day the traffic gets burdensome and the customer is paying
>> megabucks, move the machine to someone else's machine room.
>>
>> You have to balance all the issues There is no one best solution.
>
> Decent hosting costs you less than $50/yr. You'll spend that much
> keeping a computer running 24/7.
>
Depends on how many sites are on it, and whether it was doing that anyway.
And how much time it takes you to upload data, and how much it really
costs you with plenty of storage on it. MY ISP starts to talk real money
if it's over 30Mbytes. And whether it has the sort of access you want,
and runs the special code you want.
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