[Gllug] Hosting from home

[Stig Brautaset]

On Oct 02 2002, Garry was overheard saying:
>>> Does anyone have any experience of hosting from home via an ADSL
>>> connection? Yes, I know there are upstream bandwidth limitations but
>>> I'm really looking at getting some practice hosting a couple of small
>>> sites since I do mainly web development but would like to broaden my
>>> sysadmin skills.
>>>
>>> I hear a lot about running servers on old, cheap hardware but doesn't
>>> this affect:
>>>
>>>  - disk access speed if the HD is old?
>>>  - memory performance if the RAM is old spec?
>>
>> If you're thinking of using an adsl line for the feed, I'll be really
>> surprised if you find HD or RAM speed to be the bottleneck :)
>
> So cheap hardware is appropriate only for small-scale projects with a
> limited connection. Are you suggesting that in this scenario it's the
> connection rather than the hardware which is likely to fail under
> excessive load?

That depends entirely on the type of load, but in the general case, yes.

Stig
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