indigo
join:1999-08-22
Covina, CA
| Re: [Help] Setting up Apache HTTP server and FTP said by Freeze:
I run a server at my home connection; shoot me.
I've learned soo much from it. It is secure, and has really nothing valuable on it. The site itself is VERY small, like 6 kilobytes for the index and gets little to no traffic. DUMeter shows about 100kb up a day.
It is set to not be indexed in Robots.txt
It has an FTP server, but it is just to access the main site files via Dreamweaver.
The main use for it is to link/send 40 kb pics (like 3 max) to friends over IM. I also learned a lot...
I have no problem with that. I do the same thing myself on my DSL isp. I host a website for a friend in the UK and have some phpbb forums for a friend of mine and I. My isp doesn't seem to mind. Unfortunately, it's a rarity to find isps that allow servers at home nowdays, and most of them cost over $100 a month (like mine).
This is just my opinion, but I don't like co-lo (of any kind, IRC, UT, CS, HTTP, etc) because of all the horror stories I've heard from people getting screwed (servers going down, no weekend support, etc). Plus, when you have your server at home, it's much easier to fix any problems that could arise than if the server is hundreds of miles away. I've always wanted to run my own UT server but won't be able to until the day comes I can live in an area where I can get SDSL.
Sadly, people who run or want to run servers at home are usually looked upon almost as bad as people who trade child porn, thanks to the cable companies' PR conditioning that "people running servers are the sole cause of our network problems."
It would be nice if the technology would come along so that people could get T3 like connections in their homes for a reasonable price. Unfortunately that will never happen. Bandwidth prices will continue to be outrageously high. |
