[Gllug] Hosting from home

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:31:53PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience of hosting from home via an ADSL
> connection?

Yes, I do it.

> 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?

Who cares.  It'll still be faster than the network connection.  I'm
currently using a Sparcbook 3gx as my server.  It's equivalent to a 110MHz
SS5.

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