<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Good feedback. After writing the post I realized I failed to take into consideration the $25/mo I am paying extra for the Internet connection. So actually home hosting cost me more given I had to buy hardware. The potential for getting more is there and the potential for getting less is there also. Performance/service that is.<br><br>This is probably a short term thing. I would not recommend serving any important websites on a business cable account.<br><br>I run everything, LAMP + DNS + MAIL (SMTP & IMAP). So far so good. <br><br>I think I may try round cube for webmail. Thanks!!<br><br>According to http://www.speedtest.net/ Down : 17.28 Mbsp Up : 8.65
Mbsp<div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:08 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On 2014-02-19 16:45, keith smith wrote:<br clear="none">> I have cox cable and switched from residential cable to business<br clear="none">> cable for just for that purpose. It cost me $25/mo more to do so and I<br clear="none">> am able to run a server.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cox residential blocks inbound port 80 (naturally) but doesn't block <br
clear="none">inbound port 443. Of course, it's probably against the TOS to run your <br clear="none">apache on a residential connection.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> My AWS3 backups run about $6/mo and I don't know how much extra<br clear="none">> electricity my web server uses. I figure a battery backup is<br clear="none">> a necessity so that is an added expense.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">My home box doesn't need to be on 24/7, so I've put it and the <br clear="none">cablemodem and the router on a power strip. Suspend-to-disk in the <br clear="none">morning, power off before leaving work, and I should be able to save a <br clear="none">few pennies in the summer as all those heat-generating things are <br clear="none">totally off during the hottest parts of the day.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I miss WHM/cPanel. And I miss GoDaddy's webmail.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are things that work
sort of like cpanel. You can even buy a <br clear="none">cpanel license, but I think it only works well with CentOS/RHEL. There <br clear="none">are a number of Free webmail server-side interfaces like roundcube and <br clear="none">squirrelmail--I'm using roundcube to write this. It's got all the basic <br clear="none">stuff you'd need and has plugins for additional functionality. (Its web <br clear="none">interface kind of barfs on Android in landscape mode, which is annoying, <br clear="none">but that's why K-9 Mail exists.) You can also pay the developers for <br clear="none">custom stuff and/or support, IIRC.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The problem is that all of these webmail things require that you <br clear="none">install and configure an SMTP server and an IMAP server. This can get <br clear="none">insanely complicated if you're supporting hundreds of users and hundreds <br clear="none">of G of mail, but
it can be much simpler if you've got just a few users.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> My Internet connection services several computers, so if<br clear="none">> there are several people streaming video, I wonder how that<br clear="none">> affects the bandwidth needed for the web server?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hm. What are the claimed up/down speeds you're supposed to get? 1K <br clear="none">HTTP GET up can be a 100K JPEG down (or whatever) so residential stuff's <br clear="none">always down-biased. The next time several people are downloading a <br clear="none">bunch of stuff, try hitting your webserver from another connection <br clear="none">(phone?), and see how it performs. If it's reasonably fast, no worries.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> At this point, for me, I think a home server is the best<br clear="none">> bang for the buck.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I thought about this too,
because I can get 1T of disk in a home box <br clear="none">quite cheaply, and the same amount of disk would be insanely expensive <br clear="none">in any VPS. The money math didn't really work out for me though, and I <br clear="none">don't need to have *all* my data Net-accessible all the time. YMMV, <br clear="none">naturally.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Crow202 Blog: <a shape="rect" href="http://crow202.org/wordpress" target="_blank">http://crow202.org/wordpress</a><br clear="none">There is no Darkness in Eternity<br clear="none">But only Light too dim for us to see.<div class="yqt5994467204" id="yqtfd73503"><br clear="none">---------------------------------------------------<br clear="none">PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br clear="none">To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to
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