On 17/02/07, James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That said if what you're hosting is a) Not mission critical and b) low bandwidth, there is nothing to stop you doing it so long as you have a static IP (dynamic just gets to be a major pain). Its a nice way to play with different technologies without having to fork out for a VM or dedicated server.
I have a private (for family and firends) photo-sharing site on my home machine and am bloody careful to put it on a non-standard port, not to advertise the link to it anywere, and keep reminding the intended audience not to pass on the link. Before I moved it to a special port (i.e. away from port 80) and still without advertising it anywere, I used to get tons of probes on it, and I don't see the benefit of paying for bandwidth to be used by the various viruses who keep knocking on my door. (That's on a dynamic ip through ADSL). --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
