My general advice is that unless you have a VERY good reason to host it your self, don't. If you are trying to make files available to other people you have a whole host(pun intended) of issues to worry about. Also a lot of ISPs place a limit on outbound traffic and discourage you from from running your own servers. for a nominal fee you can get professionally hosted webspace and not have to worry about any of this.
On 10/6/05, Josiah Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things that need to be taken into consideration are load, traffic, > bandwidth, dependency, etc. > > A linux based web server from a software perspective is free and if it > doesn't have too much load, you could grab an old P3 off the shelf and > slap it together. On the other hand, it will totally freeze up if you > are running a resource intensive perl-based site with even a moderate > number of visitors at a time. > > JSR/ > > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 23:41 -0400, Jin-Ho Yoon wrote: > > Dear All: > > > > I have one question about the www server. Frankly, I am not > > sure where to start. If we wanna have own machine and run > > web server, could you guys give me some rough estimation > > how much it costs? Let's say I have some old machine which > > propabaly okay to work as a server. > > > > Along this line... > > Many companies provide web housing service. What could be > > your recommendation on this? > > > > Any suggestion or idea will save me. > > > > Thanks alot! > > > > > > Jinho >
