I'm not the original poster of the comment against 'home hosting', but I thought I would chime in with an opinion on this. I too hosted 'production' (but not necessarily commercial) services on home machines for years, starting around 1998.
About 2 years ago I sat down and did the math and realized that the extra cost in electricity was greater than the cost of finding a comparable hosting service. My electricity cost was around $36 a month (about $12 a machine), and the hosting service I found to replace all the services I was providing was about $30 a month. Give the additional savings of hardware, system maintenance, plus the extra redundancies I got from the host my decision to move away from home based hosting was a no-brainer. Darren On Feb 2, 2008 12:37 AM, Stephen Waits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > > > I would strongly recommend against doing that. > > > Why? > > It has worked very well for me for the 8 years I've lived here. I can > host as much as I want, on my own boxes, in my house. Granted, I'm > not hosting some huge commercial app... that's not what I'm after. > > It is an option worth considering, depending on what you need to > host. For small traffic sorts of things it's a great place to start > IMO. > -- > Stephen Waits > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://swaits.com/ > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
