[Gllug] Hosting from home

[Garry Heaton]

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?

Garry

Message: 10
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:54:05 +0100
From: Stig Brautaset <stigbrau at start.no>
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Hosting from home
Reply-To: gllug at linux.co.uk

On Oct 01 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 :)


Stig


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