RE: Re: Home or managed hosting ?

["Ho Yin" <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Just being nosy, but which host did you sign up with?

Thanks,

Ho yin

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Purves
Sent: 05 July 2006 07:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Home or managed hosting ?



Thanks Mal,

Already well underway (hence the Dell server for sale). Hopefully the
domain should be transfered to my new hoster today from dyndns.

Chris

--- In ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com, Mal
Lansell <mal@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> >
>






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