RE: Home or managed hosting ?

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I may be biased as I offer web hosting, but I'd say go for a hosted
solution. Home network hosting is fine for small things but for your main
site and email, I'd go with a "proper" solution. A dynamic IP
will cause you
problems if the router doesn't catch the new IP and update the dyndns (mine
occasionally fails). If you use the server for outbound email, then you may
find that some ISP's will reject your mail as it comes form a known
residential IP.

Additionally there may be small print in your broadband contract preventing
you from running a web server.

Most hosting companies will offer a generic system with MySQL databases and
have PHP so you can run things like blogs, content management systems,
forums and so on.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Purves [mailto:CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 9:09 AM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Home or managed hosting ?
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just looking for your views on how to host my domain. At the
> moment I have 'one of those' Dell servers which I upgraded to
> raid running centos doing the job in a DMZ off my vigor adsl
> router.  I already have a full time winxp pc for automation
> and one for geovision. Do I really need a third 24/7 pc? I am
> using dyndns for the domain name hosting as I now have a
> non-static ip from talk talk.
>
> I have had the following thoughts.
>
> Down Side
> I have to manage it
> It has to be on 24/7
> Doesn't seem the fastest in the world when browsing from work
>
> Up Side
> Flexibility - I can install what I want on it although it
> seems some hosters offer mysql / wordpress etc.
>
> I'm sure some (all) of you have been through this and I was
> interested in your thoughts.
>
> Ta
> Chris
>
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