Thread: Creating a Server?
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Old 10-09-2004, 09:06   #8
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Re: Creating a Server?
But if you spend a tenner or more with iweb you can solve this problem and have oodles of web space, bandwidth, reliable pop3 and smtp and the ability to do more than serve http.

http://www.i-websolutions.co.uk/cfhosting.php

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=17187
http://www.i-websolutions.co.uk/hosting.php

Thats a bigger plug than KingPhoenix gave in post 2.

Running it on your PC has bandwidth problems as the pipe from your PC to the internet is quite restricted. 64k (same as a modem), 128k (like ISDN) or 256k (better) depending on whether you are using 300k, 750k or 1.5Mb NTL.

A server on the net in a server room will be connected to the net at 2Mb or above, so can shift the files 8 x faster, important with video etc, and if you are using your net connection then that is also fighting for this 256k of capacity.

If you are not confident technically then you may well create security vunerabilities and as a result expose personal information on your PC to anyone on the web, again a reason for using a third party host, not your own machine.

You will still need to design and upload the site, something that this 90Gb of spare HDD of yours will be good for.
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