Website Blues

[kerravonsen]

Well, I just heard from my web-host. They are never going to offer Apache, not with the package I have. And I have also been informed that it is impossible for Zeus to do what I want to be able to do.

Wah!

Friends, geeks, and countrymen, lend me your ears. Am I insane to consider running my own webserver? I have signed up for 256/64 ADSL with a static IP. I was certainly intending to run my own mailserver, but I wasn't going to go with an external webserver, or if I did, it was just going to be a casual mirror site. But if I move katspace.net over to my own machine, am I going to be swamped? Will 64K on upload be too slow? My web-host is very reliable and has a very fast connection, and only costs me US$25 a year -- my ADSL connection will cost me A$40 a month. My current dialup connection costs me $20 a month, and of course I'm going to save some money on telephone calls, but I'll still be paying more than I am at the moment, but I still think it's worth it, but I'm not blase' about paying even more to get a faster connection.

Ah well, first I should just wait and see how the ADSL goes. I finally got changed over to Telstra on Friday, and I revived the ADSL connection process yesterday, so I should find out in a week or two (5-10 working days).

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Ah well, first I should just wait and see how the ADSL goes.

This is what I was going to say. I feel so redundant. ;-)

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

I'll still be paying more than I am at the moment
Really? I had a line devoted to the dialup so people could still call in. Getting rid of it saved another A$26.50

[kerravonsen]

True, but I got rid of my second line many months ago. So I'm already saving that money. It so happens that there's something, maybe caller-id or summat, which results in me getting kicked off dialup when people ring me up. So they can still call in.

ADSL will be much nicer, though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_finn_/]

I'd suggest that 64K up is too slow for a webserver. You'd need at least 256/512 up, but if you're really intending to host on your server, you should have it as a backup (and redirect the main site to test it) and then phase the upspeed higher as you need.

(PS, have you heard of the Buteyko breathing method? My father went to a seminar, as he has sleep apnea and some of the ideas there apparantly had some merit =))