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eyor

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I know that many of the people here have websites, and most are techies, so I figured many probably host their own site. Do you? What kind of internet connection do you have?
I am wondering about hosting my site, I really need a good host, but I don't think that my cable connection would be able to handle the traffic...
 
Zenmervolt

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Theoretically I could, but that is grounds for the college disabling my network connection. For some reason they don't want students hooking up web servers on the campus network. I wonder why. ;)

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IBhacknU

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I host a number of small sites. Traffic is VERY lite (I've got a T1 at work) so bandwidth is not an issue.

As for your connection, what sort of limits do you have on your upload speed? Do you have a fixed IP? And most importantly, what sort of traffic are you expecting?

I can't imagine a new hardware site getting a TON of traffic. For the beginning now, I think it's a great idea to try it yourself. You'll only improve skills you can use later on (hosting, HTML, CGI, FTP, etc.)

Let me know if you have any specific quesions. :)
 
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chiwawa626

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Hehe, i was gonna start one. Visotech.com, I went to a company and went through the process to register it. I got a conformation email and it said ur domain will be activated within 24hours, i checked in 6 hours, and their was a site up?! wtf, its some german design site, i was pissed, i talked to the place i had it registered and they said yeah sometimes it happens that its not cleared all the way through the system and stuff happens....i was pissed!
 
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NaughtyusMaximus

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I did until very recently. I used a K6-2/450 with 64 megs of RAM and BSD on a 1500/512 DSL line. It was fine for the amount of traffic I have, but better things came my way (for free). :)
 
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eyor

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Well I just started the site a few weeks ago, it has gotten about 10000 hits, but the hits/day seems to be increasing.
 
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ChrichtonsGirl

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eyor, I'm in the same boat as you. I'm trying to decide server/host issues for a forum I'll be moving (from a free host) soon. So far I'm just using PennyHost, but I'm definitely open to suggestions.

 
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Russ

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I host some of mine, and have others hosted. A couple of my sites are a little too complicated (and too important) for me to host myself, so those are left to pros (although, I do all the development).

The low volume sites, I just moved to my own server to save the hosting fees.

Russ, NCNE
 
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ChrichtonsGirl

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eyor - I don't handle that end of things for my website, but it's the host my partner selected as our sort of external server (which I haven't got a clue about) until we decide what to do about our own. It's only $15/month from what I understand, and was recommended to me because of it's relatively low down-time.

PennyHost link

 
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eyor

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Casio: OverclockedHardware.com
I know, it needs some work. I am piecing together the new site design now, and I have a new review and a new article almost ready to be posted.

You can see what I mean about needing a new host... the page loads slow, I am only using url forwarding right now and it tries to put ad frames on there, but my page doesn't like frames ;), I can't really monitor where the hits come from too well because of the redirection and such, and I can not add php or cgi stuff right now, and the site loads slow. Damn, anyone here wanna host it? ;)
 
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eyor

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hmmm... are you not allowed to link to files on Geocities? well, no Warez mirrors on Geocities I guess ;)
 
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