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| Thread ID: 100503 | 2009-06-10 09:43:00 | Host website from home | stardotstar (14815) | Press F1 |
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| 781193 | 2009-06-10 09:43:00 | Hey guys, I think I know the answer to this one, but maybe some network wise guys out there can help me. Is it possible to host a website from home (yes I'll get a static IP address), using my plain old Slingshot broadband account? I have "so-called" max up and down, which theoretically gives me about 6-7mbit down and 1mbit up. How many concurrent users would that support? If 1000 users hit my website, what would the response time be? I used to have my own box at an ISP many years ago, but the site never got massive hits so I never could tell. It was running on a 10mbit network connection into their network. What I'm trying to find out is if I can actually host from home, or do I have to look at shared/private/co-location hosting at an ISP? Thanks, |
stardotstar (14815) | ||
| 781194 | 2009-06-10 10:03:00 | Yes you can host it from a home PC - Mine is currently doing just that - but its not live yet, it works from my ip address http: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, its " work in Progress" :D Have a read of This article here (lifehacker.com) - short version, you have a always on PC, static IP address, run Apache, and you need to port forward your Router, Port 80 to the PC's IP address that has the site. Setting up domain name redirection is a little bit more complicated though. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 781195 | 2009-06-10 10:16:00 | Setting up domain name redirection is a little bit more complicated though. It shouldn't be too hard - it's just a matter of changing the DNS records for your domain to point at your home IP address. There's several members here on PF1 who would be happy to help you get that configured. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 781196 | 2009-06-10 10:19:00 | Without hijacking the thread - I already have that sorted a while back - my domain name is hosted with Telstra - all I have to do is tell them to redirect the domain name to my IP address and away it goes - costs nothing. Its work in progress - not exactly in a hurry :sleep |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 781197 | 2009-06-10 10:22:00 | Thanks for the link... I see the general feeling is that it's not going to work with any significant number of hits, which is what I thought might be the case. People do it for basically personal reasons only. So it looks like we'll have to go with third party web hosting. I've already setup my home hosting and the speed looks fine when I'm at work, plus I have a couple of users testing and they aren't complaining about speed...so it makes sense for development. I'm developing stuff here, updating my website, and the users are testing. Once I'm ready to deploy, I'll just upload to an ISP hosted webserver then. BTW, You don't need to address your server using the IP address, look at DynDns.org or no-ip.org. It works well, but beware, don't try and view your website from home because most routers don't allow loopback (I spent hours finding this out). Instead, if you want to test that your website is working, use www.hidemyass.com instead...then you can check if it works. Thanks, |
stardotstar (14815) | ||
| 781198 | 2009-06-10 10:25:00 | DynDns.org is good - already been there done that - I also run a FTP server off the same PC, thats running through DynDns. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 781199 | 2009-06-10 10:48:00 | Cool...thanks for the feedback... It just reaffirms what I've been thinking anyway. 3rd Party Hosting... |
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