Re: Home or managed hosting ?

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd vote for having someone else host it.  Even with my NTL 10Mbps
package, I only get 384kbps upload speed, so downloading stuff from my
server is really slow.  For my website I use www.xcalibre.co.uk.  Not
the cheapest out there, but they've been 100% reliable and their
customer support very efficient during the two years I've been with them.

Mal


Christopher Purves wrote:

> 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
>
>