Ok, first off... You say could grow into 100 users: Is this total or concurrent? If concurrent then do the math... Presume a 10KB average user payload and if you had 100 simultaneous users this would work out to 1000KB. Now, if you had a 3.2 Mb cable connection it would take roughly 1MB / (3.2 Mb / 8 = .8MB) seconds (1.25). And since people (at least nowadays with high speed access) had an expectation of sub-second response your 1.25 sec. response would seem slow. Could you live with that? (Beware, though, your cable provider may have T.O.S. wording, and implementation, that could prevent you from operating a server on the standard ports (such as 80 and 443) - I know of 1 such cable/phone operator which blocks incoming http/https/ftp/smtp/pop3/imap ports unless you have a business plan with them instead of the standard home user plan).
Next... Since you are using a cable service your IP address will keep getting refreshed/renewed daily. You will need to make use of a dynamic dns service so that your users can get to you. And the list would continue to get longer if I had the time to spare. Lastly... What control do you want that you cannot get with godaddy? With GD you can control your DNS, have cron jobs, control your databases, ftp, etc. Also, there are other hosting companies out there where you can get a virtual server for less than a dedicated server and you have the same control. Did you look into this option? On Aug 21, 8:12 pm, blackListed <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm been really thinking about buying a server, and hosting a few > websites on it. > > I've been programming since 2002, and I'm really interested in > learning more about networking. I believe having my own server i can > learn more about the different setting, security, and maintenance that > is involved. > > My main concern is bandwidth, I don't have a t1 line going into my > apartment, and would be using broadband connection provided by my > local cable company. > > would this type of connection cause user to lag when accessing my > server? I don't plan on a huge amount of people accessing my server > but it could grow in time and I do not want people complaining about > why its taking so long to access webpages on my server. It could reach > around 100 users accessing my webpages. > > I'm sure some of you will suggest having godaddy or some other company > to host my websites. However, I want more control than they have to > offer, and if I did decide go with godaddy a dedicated server plan is > little to expensive for me. > > Any suggestions or comments? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en.
