I was thinking of running a few sites from home with a DSL 768K x 768Kbps on a loaded Sun ultra2. Would my performance be the same as a dedicated surver like at rackshack.net? I'm not sure what speed they offer compared to DSL.

no way it wont be that fast.

That's not even close. Not a good idea at all.

Well if he's just having one site, it couldn't be that bad you guys... Hey I say go for it and tell us how it goes. :) Altho, you'll need special privalges for static IPs.

yah. I dont recomend it and computer must be on 24/7 if u want everyone to see it when they want and can't have more then 2-3 visitors at a time

If it is nothing critical, you could try. However it will never beat any dedicated server in RS.

Up to you.

Your bandwidth is capped at 768kbps... which works out to a theoretical max of around 248Gb per month (or something like that).

So, a big question is how much traffic do you expect.... then go from there.

Good luck,
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Doug

Depends on the kind of sites you are running and the traffic level. If it is going to be light then you may not see much difference since you might not exceed that 768kbps anyways. If it is to host downloads and it is popular, those using it would just feel a slow down in performance.

Everyone forgetting a small thing called his ISP and their TOS?

I figured that if he has a Sun Ultra 2 at home, he would have a business class DSL network at home which would probably have the certification from his ISP that it is allowed.

Thanks, I will use my system for testing only and put my real site on beachcomber.net

It all depends on how busy the sites are and if there are any downloads. I wouldn't host any critical business sites on it, but for low volume, non-critical, you will probably be ok.

To put things in perspective, my network experienced a test today:

I'm a network admin for a land development company. We host all of our website/email (about 10 domains) with a Raq4 and a couple of redhat boxes on a T-1 at our corporate office.

Neal Boortz played golf at one of our courses last night and mentioned us on his nationwide radio show this morning and put a link to us on his website.

Our websites were flooded with hits and We have been trasferring over 500 megs per hour from a Raq4 down that T-1 line since 7:00 AM this morning (I'm at just over 3 gigs so far today)

I'm currently at home on an ADSL line, browsing that site (which is still being hammered) and it is still reasonably fast.

Originally posted by Thiassi
I was thinking of running a few sites from home with a DSL 768K x 768Kbps on a loaded Sun ultra2. Would my performance be the same as a dedicated surver like at rackshack.net? I'm not sure what speed they offer compared to DSL.

Most people will say no. I don't think there is problem with light websites.

I run test bench behind ADSL (business account so it is allowed). Sign up some webhosting accounts, the test bench behind ADSL is faster. This is a small forum site of about 40 members, at most 12 user same time twice average 1 to 2 sametime. Low traffic, low graphics. Beats most of them all - why => this is a dedicate server with 2 low traffic site.

If you compare my test bench with a dedicate server at a datacenter, I don't think there is much difference. Why, because only 2 low requirement sites.

Final view --- it all depends what you are doing, what kind of web sites you are talking about.

I don't think is fair to put paying clients on a server behind regular ADSL because there is no uptime gaurantee. May be down for days or intermittent for days.

Another point of note, a home based web server is really a god send to web developers. Simply because you can have your applications tested out in a similar environment (script wise - not hardware specs) before actual deployment.

Having to do FTP all the time to and fro an account with a host can cost you on bandwidth. Not to mention a mess of files that could have known better management.

I do run a web server on my development pc but never had it accessible from outside the internal network. Yup, great testing arena.