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[jaylach]

Well I went and done did it. As of January my last two web sites will be off-line. Since it is pretty much now that you have to pay for search engine listing there isn't enough traffic to justify the cost increase my hosting wants to impose. This year I paid $175.00mfor the year. Now they want $350.00 which isn't going to happen.

Now, in the future, I MAY put them back up but don't know. Years ago I set up a server with everything except DNS. When I end up doing a new build it would leave my current second desktop with nothing to do. Even though old the system would probably do fine as a web server. Right now, as I'm stuck with Spectrum, it just would not be practical as Spectrum throttles my up speed to 5 Mb/sec. If my building ever gets wired for Blue Peak my up speed would be fiber optic at 1 Gb/sec which would be doable. I would use Apache, mySQL and PHP which all work under Windows just fine and are free. The only aspect I haven't done is a DNS as I set up the server to be able to locally test when I was re-writing my computer help forums templates. If nothing else it may be a fun and learning project.

 

[MattW]

A double price increase is ridiculous. Hopefully you can find a good alternative

 

[jaylach]

A double price increase is ridiculous. Hopefully you can find a good alternative

To be fair the $175.00 last year was a promotional thing but, at the time, I was told there would be something similar this year which, obviously, didn't happen.

If they ever get my building wired the resulting 1 Gb/sec up speed would be OK for running my own server using my current second desktop. I was thinking I'd need a DNS but not really true. Setting it up to be Internet facing on port 443 and using a dynamic DNS service to point my domain to my ISP provided IP address should work fine. I doubt that the NIC in the second system would be able to fully handle the 1 Gb/sec but adapters are cheap enough.

 

[anewbie]

Well I went and done did it. As of January my last two web sites will be off-line. Since it is pretty much now that you have to pay for search engine listing there isn't enough traffic to justify the cost increase my hosting wants to impose. This year I paid $175.00mfor the year. Now they want $350.00 which isn't going to happen.

Now, in the future, I MAY put them back up but don't know. Years ago I set up a server with everything except DNS. When I end up doing a new build it would leave my current second desktop with nothing to do. Even though old the system would probably do fine as a web server. Right now, as I'm stuck with Spectrum, it just would not be practical as Spectrum throttles my up speed to 5 Mb/sec. If my building ever gets wired for Blue Peak my up speed would be fiber optic at 1 Gb/sec which would be doable. I would use Apache, mySQL and PHP which all work under Windows just fine and are free. The only aspect I haven't done is a DNS as I set up the server to be able to locally test when I was re-writing my computer help forums templates. If nothing else it may be a fun and learning project.

Depending on your location it sounds cheaper to just get a static ip and setup your 'websever' in your home. You can use a old celeron machine with linux and apache. Whatever i would never pay for 'search engine listing' as that is a scam of the worse kind. Whoever invented that crap should be fed to the pigs.

 

[jaylach]

Depending on your location it sounds cheaper to just get a static ip and setup your 'websever' in your home. You can use a old celeron machine with linux and apache. Whatever i would never pay for 'search engine listing' as that is a scam of the worse kind. Whoever invented that crap should be fed to the pigs.

I already have a system that would become the server. Can't remember the exact model but it is running an FX series AMD CPU.

Won't do anything unless Blue Peak gets in the building with 1 Gb/sec up speed. As long as I'm stuck with Spectrum my up speed is throttled down to 5 Mb/sec.

 

[anewbie]

I already have a system that would become the server. Can't remember the exact model but it is running an FX series AMD CPU.

Won't do anything unless Blue Peak gets in the building with 1 Gb/sec up speed. As long as I'm stuck with Spectrum my up speed is throttled down to 5 Mb/sec.

You don't need 1 Gb/sec up or down; but 100 Mb would be nice and more than adequate. You can throttle the machine so it doesn't suck all your bw and dos your other usage. Anyway 5 Mb/sec is pretty bad not much better than some of the better modems.

 

[jaylach]

You don't need 1 Gb/sec up or down; but 100 Mb would be nice and more than adequate. You can throttle the machine so it doesn't suck all your bw and dos your other usage. Anyway 5 Mb/sec is pretty bad not much better than some of the better modems.

Won't do it at 5 Mb/sec. As to the 1 Gb/sec up/down that is the lowest fiber package from Blue Peak. It isn't so much what is needed but what is available.

 

[jaylach]

Here is an Apache install question.... As I'd be using an older system as the server why would I install Apache, PHP and mySQL under a base OS when Apache can be installed on it's own in most cases. While installing within a base OS tends to make configuration easier it is often not necessary. Would not installing Apache clean without a base OS allow more system resources to be available to the server?

Also please keep in mind that this is all speculation and not a high priority to make happen. I already have all my photos from the photo gallery and my animated GIF gallery is already running locally.