Why don't many more people become web host?

[Naer]

why?

 

[Blain]

they have no need to

 

[SecurityTheatre]

Why don't many more people become taxi driver?

Why?

Why indeed...

 

[RLGL]

Why ask why?

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's a cut throat business. Try competing with people selling practically unlimited disk space web hosting for $4/year when a dedicated server with a 120GB IDE hard drive cost's over 100 bucks a month. If you have a high end connection that allows servers you could build more powerful servers and host at home, but even that has it's limits as you are limited by the ISP's package availability, and typically the upload is not as high as what you'd get in a data centre.

You pretty much have to own your own data centre and physically get fibre run to it and peer with big companies etc.

 

[Naer]

It's a cut throat business. Try competing with people selling practically unlimited disk space web hosting for $4/year when a dedicated server with a 120GB IDE hard drive cost's over 100 bucks a month. If you have a high end connection that allows servers you could build more powerful servers and host at home, but even that has it's limits as you are limited by the ISP's package availability, and typically the upload is not as high as what you'd get in a data centre.

You pretty much have to own your own data centre and physically get fibre run to it and peer with big companies etc.

I'm not talking about profiting off of it. Just doing it to decentralize the digital world a bit

 

[Red Squirrel]

The other reason would be because most ISPs don't allow it. I would host my own stuff at home in a heart beat if I was allowed to now that I have a fibre connection. Why pay over 100/mo on a dedicated server that will cost me extra per month to upgrade when I can build a kick ass server at home and upgrade it at will?

 

[BrightCandle]

I suspect most peoples upload speed is a big part of it. ADSL is still a very common connection and the low upload speed stops anything real being run. A lot of connections aren't all that reliable either and all of it boils down to the home desktop being a bad place to run software with 24/7 like availability.

 

[Naer]

The other reason would be because most ISPs don't allow it. I would host my own stuff at home in a heart beat if I was allowed to now that I have a fibre connection. Why pay over 100/mo on a dedicated server that will cost me extra per month to upgrade when I can build a kick ass server at home and upgrade it at will?

interdasting

 

[Naer]

I suspect most peoples upload speed is a big part of it. ADSL is still a very common connection and the low upload speed stops anything real being run. A lot of connections aren't all that reliable either and all of it boils down to the home desktop being a bad place to run software with 24/7 like availability.

yeah, that could be a reason. fiber optics solves this thought, right?

 

[Doppel]

yeah, that could be a reason. fiber optics solves this thought, right?

No, see post 7.

 

[jumpncrash]

I have 2 dedicated servers, one is provided by my work, but would be 39/month, the other I pay for myself, 29/month.

However they are both in the same datacenter, not in the same rack though, so I'm sort of decentralizing the internet.

I always wanted to host from home but my ISP blocks port 80

 

[smakme7757]

I host quite a lot (all) of my own infrastructure at home. I have a nice connection 100/100. My blog was hosted at home for a period. The primary reason i moved the blog to a hosting provider is that I don't have enough redundancy built into my home network to keep it online if I want to change something. I could buy a second router, double up on switches, but it's just a waste of money, I'm not making money off it.

For the services that i use, hosting them at home gives me more flexibility and more space at a cheaper price. My Owncloud solution has me with 4TB of redundant "Cloud" storage. Not as "safe" as having it with Dropbox or Box.com (offsite), but it's the flexibility that i like. I deal with backup in my own way.

The datacenter can provide much higher reliability than a home setup can and if I was going to start some sort of service/business then i wouldn't buy a rack and put it in the garage. The datacenter has redundant power, internet, servers, support staff etc. You can't beat that with a home setup.

I have no problems with hosting personal services at home and i personally prefer to have them at home if possible.

 

[Naer]

No, see post 7.

Wouldn't stop people from doing it anyway

Question, wordpress sites can be backed up to offline if I wanted to migrate to my own host in the future? Is this hard?