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Steve21

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How important a site?

 

Obviously depends on things like whether you have static IP or dynamic, if dynamic do you use a free DNS alternative or a paid for one.

 

If it's important website consider things like QoS on routers do your "random downloads" don't nuke your site offline.

 

DMZ it off from main network etc, or use port forwarding blah blah

 

More info! :p

 

Steve

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pcstru

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Set up server. Plug it in. Profit!

 

Seriously though, other than the server and web services, you should just need some kind of DNS, so packets can find the back of your router on what is probably a leased dynamic IP (changeable). Most people tend to use a Dynamic DNS service which are supported by their router.

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hardtailstar

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How important a site?

 

Obviously depends on things like whether you have static IP or dynamic, if dynamic do you use a free DNS alternative or a paid for one.

 

If it's important website consider things like QoS on routers do your "random downloads" don't nuke your site offline.

 

DMZ it off from main network etc, or use port forwarding blah blah

 

More info! :p

 

Steve

 

Not actually done anything yet, It will be only for a local Scout group I am involved in, so trying to save costs.

 

Set up server. Plug it in. Profit!

 

Seriously though, other than the server and web services, you should just need some kind of DNS, so packets can find the back of your router on what is probably a leased dynamic IP (changeable). Most people tend to use a Dynamic DNS service which are supported by their router.

 

Just to be clear this will be at my house so just using the standard Virgin home broadband.

Edu-IT

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Not actually done anything yet, It will be only for a local Scout group I am involved in, so trying to save costs.

Tsohost offer free hosting to charities. I'm not sure if you'd be eligible for that, or, a discounted rate.

 

www.tsohost.com

mats

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I'd suggest it's not worth the hassle of having a webserver at home. Go to digital ocean / aws / any one of a million providers and enjoy the greater reliability, connectivity and uptime of a proper server. Only a few £ pm now.
ThePurpleK

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Hi All,

 

I am looking at hosting one or two websites at home on a server,

 

What is the best way to go about this?

 

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You'd much prefer using DigitalOcean for hosting small projects, but if you want a home server just as a hobby, set up a server with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and set up an appropriate stack for your applications. For website hosting, I'd recommend nginx, with your domain placed behind CloudFlare to mitigate threats your existing setup might miss. If you have a dynamic IP address, get DynDNS.

robsonma

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Hi,

I used to host all my own website's on my own servers.

Contacted my ISP and got a static ip, most will do it for around £5 one off fee.

re-booted router and put a port forward on my router to my machine,

I Used a old pc running Windows Server 2003r2 and worked good with IIS Installed also moved some to Linux, (Followed youtube Vids) easy to install.

Don't forget to work things out which is why i stopped!

Elec for the Server Running 24/7 was around £10 per month, with cost of Backups ect GoDaddy was only charging £11 pm so I went with Go Daddy shared hosting, easy to get SSL Certificates installed ect, Backup and support included.

ThePurpleK

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Hi,

I used to host all my own website's on my own servers.

Contacted my ISP and got a static ip, most will do it for around £5 one off fee.

re-booted router and put a port forward on my router to my machine,

I Used a old pc running Windows Server 2003r2 and worked good with IIS Installed also moved some to Linux, (Followed youtube Vids) easy to install.

Don't forget to work things out which is why i stopped!

Elec for the Server Running 24/7 was around £10 per month, with cost of Backups ect GoDaddy was only charging £11 pm so I went with Go Daddy shared hosting, easy to get SSL Certificates installed ect, Backup and support included.

 

I haven't touched shared hosting in a long time. Too many issues. It would actually be cheaper to get a $10 VPS from DigitalOcean. It's definitely worth learning how to deploy websites on Linux.

pcstru

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Elec for the Server Running 24/7 was around £10 per month, with cost of Backups ect GoDaddy was only charging £11 pm so I went with Go Daddy shared hosting, easy to get SSL Certificates installed ect, Backup and support included.

It's a good point on electric costs. I figure 1 Watt 24/7 is a nice round ~£1 a year, so if you have a server drawing 120W - that is £120 a year. On the other hand, a Raspberry Pi running 24/7 will cost you under a couple of quid a year and a nice little Atom based server should be around £30. I even switch hi-fi amps and my Sub off now - which is a pain but it's just silly spending money to keep stuff warmed up.

CyberNerd

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It's a good point on electric costs. I figure 1 Watt 24/7 is a nice round ~£1 a year, so if you have a server drawing 120W - that is £120 a year. On the other hand, a Raspberry Pi running 24/7 will cost you under a couple of quid a year and a nice little Atom based server should be around £30. I even switch hi-fi amps and my Sub off now - which is a pain but it's just silly spending money to keep stuff warmed up.

 

And you do get to keep it super secure and away from the eyes of the NSA :troll:

ITGURU

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I used to run my own website and photography site off my own server at home until wanted higher upload bandwidth for clients accessing images.

However, I have still used dyndns for years and never once has it let me down as use it still for accessing cctv, email remote access from dynamic ip.

I have a server on 24/7 for accessing client photos anyway, so running additional services off it (hyper-v) is of no bother to me.

 

most routers will allow you to set up dyndns rather than needing the client so if your router ever reboots it will update the domain ip instantly.

steveking

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I run a website from home, and have done for, er, 15 years. My server is an Atom based machine, and with two spinny hard drives inside it it and it can't use much power as my entire networking kit draws about 30W (and that includes bt modem, sky router, unifi wap, gig switch, and the server)

 

I did use no-ip (and even paid them for a few years to avoid the monthly nagging), but after they "broke" for a few days I put my eggs into different baskets and dynamic dns is now done by both dnsexit and changeip. I actually use some DNS voodoo (it's a nasty hack) to run my own dns server too. Yes, I know, it's bad to run the dns server on the same machine, and even more so when the backup dns server is the same machine - but then it's nothing vital and if the machine dies there's no point the dns pointing to it! It means I can play about and make sub domains easily.

 

Sky offer static IP address as part of their fibre-pro, but as they refuse to give me any discount from £30/month I'm on their normal fibre with dynamic ip address (although it's pretty static - maybe one or two changes a year, and for £7.50/month I can cope with that). 10 megabit upload is more than enough, and on a drupal site I also run on it it's clearly cpu limited not bandwith limited - but that's ok too.

 

There's no reason to run the stuff at home other than to let me play - a minimal vps for a quid or two a month would be better if you just want something simple - lowendbox.com if you want to find current cheapo virtual servers.

vizubeat

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Really torn on this issue myself - do I run a server at home on a separate box, spend like £5/month on a VPS somewhere and do it myself, or pay a company peanuts per month or year to manage web, email, security and everything else associated with hosting *properly* for me on a shared hosting platform. By all means run a small server at home to experiment with, but unless you really have the time and expertise, pay someone else for some shared hosting.

 

If you're doing it yourself at home I'd always recommend running Linux, Ubuntu or CentOS (that free panel that @GTX mentioned looks cool!) and ideally virtualised, allows for greater flexibility.

 

If you did want to go down the VPS route, OVH are doing VPSs for £3/month -- VPS Hosting: Your virtual server in the Cloud- OVH -- other even cheaper options available at Low End Box - Cheap VPS Hosting Providers Listing & Reviews

 

Too many shared hosting options to mention, they're all absolutely fine these days. I can recommend you one that I've used before, £10 per year for 1GB storage, 50GB transfer, 100 mailboxes, 5 MySQL databases etc etc -- won't post here but PM me if you'd like to know more.

pcstru

pcstru

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And you do get to keep it super secure and away from the eyes of the NSA :troll:

Either your reply to the text you quote makes no sense or perhaps you are in the wrong thread?

howartp

howartp

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Im sure this will be against the T&C of Virgin.

 

I don't think so unless it's changed - I asked them several years ago and although I can't remember the details of the answer (i didn't proceed) it wasn't definitely 'no'.

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GTX

GTX

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YOur best bet is to go on LowendBox. Find a well known VPS company for like $2 a month. Wack Centos panel on it. You have the best of both worlds. Full control and a control panel

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