[Gllug] Hosting from home

Pavel Bradut Boghita bradut at freeuk.com
Tue Oct 1 20:46:30 UTC 2002


I have/'still am' toying around with hosting from home over ADSL. Performance 
is good everything considered. 
Purchasing one of these router (vigor 2200 usb in my case) with firewall and 
a lot else included has been a good idea for my set-up. 


On Tuesday 01 October 2002 8:31 pm, you wrote:
> 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 it really is possible to use such old hardware without performance
> being affected too much on small sites then I plan to set-up a network
> with seperate boxes for:
>
> - Firewall
> - Web server
> - Database server
> - Log server
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Garry Heaton

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