Hi

I would like to host my own site, at home!

Has anyone done this in the UK?

I was thinking of an ADSL link, I will be paying £40/£50 month for the link to "surf" the internet, so hosting my own site would be "free"!.

Will BT / other let you host or is ADSL only for surfing?
Is the a better way! No cable in our area.

Software at hand is Windows 2000 Server, hardware is PIII/800 512MB ram with 40GB disk. Would I need any other software.

I would also like to host a few other sites for free, would this be possible, again would I need software for them to access their own web sites for publishing/updating.

I am not looking for 99% up time. If my site was down for a few hours it would not be a problem, Life is to short.

So if any UK reader has had success with hosting at home please tell.

Regards
Michael

I have setup my PC use Apache web server on BT Openworld ADSL... the upload speed is quite good when you only have a few users and my PC does seem to be able to cope, only problem is BT dont like you doing it and could cut you off.

Hi
Just looking at BT.Com broadband prices, the first price is for intallation the second is monthly line rental. Just wondered which would be the minimum for home hosting?

business 2000PLUS 2000 £260 £159.99 Ex vat
Download speed up to 2000Kbps
Up to ten email addresses
20Mb of webspace
Contention ratio of 20:1
Plug in up to four computers directly into ADSL router/modem
Dynamic IP addressing
Fixed IP address (No NAT) optional extra

business 1000PLUS 1000 £260 £129.99 Ex vat
Download speed up to 1000Kpbs
Up to ten email addresses
20Mb of webspace
Contention ratio of 20:1
Plug in up to four computers directly into ADSL router/modem
Dynamic IP addressing
Fixed IP address (No NAT) optional extra

business 500PLUS 500 £260 £99.99 Ex vat
Download speed up to 500Kbps
Up to ten email addresses
20Mb of webspace
Contention ratio of 20:1
Plug in up to four computers directly into ADSL router/modem
Dynamic IP addressing
Fixed IP address (No NAT) optional extra


business 500 500 £150 £39.99 Ex vat
Download speed up to 500Kbps
Up to ten email addresses
20Mb of webspace
Contention ratio of 50:1
Easy USB connection
Dynamic IP address
Optional extra of 1 static IP address

home 500 500 £150 £39.99 Inc vat
Download speed up to 500Kbps
Up to 10 email addresses
20Mb of webspace
Contention ratio of 50:1
Easy USB connection
Dynamic IP address

Home 500 is all you need since all of the packages have the same upload speed of 30k bytes per second. (Im on Home 500 and evryone has said it was fine)

oh, and if you were worrying about the dynamic IP dont worry, you can go to www.dns2go.com and get an account

Hi

Just what do BT mean when they say:

Fixed IP address (No NAT)

Its the No NAT bit!


What does DNS2GO offer! for BT ADSL

Regards
Michael

If you dont know what it means it means you dont need it.

DNS2GO offer a service for people with a dynamic IP, whenever u connect it tells them your IP and then people can link to you PC

e.g. www.furnace.dns2go.com

when i put my server up people go there and it directs them to my PC so i dont have to worry about IPs