Servers at home?

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shockym

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I was talking to a friend last night that runs a small server from his house, while its not something that that most residental ISP's allow for I was wondering if anyone here has one? My friend is having issues keeping the room cool and is about to knock a hole in his basement wall (no windows) for an A/C unit.
 
My friend is having issues keeping the room cool and is about to knock a hole in his basement wall (no windows) for an A/C unit.
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Which begs the question, is this whole effort worth it?
 
I would think it would depend on what you are hosting, but if you're having to knock a hole in a wall and put in a/c, then I think you are going to spend more doing that then if you were hosted at a data center, plus you don't have redundant power. I would seriously do a cost/benefit analysis before I put a hole in my house :)
 
ldcdc said:
Which begs the question, is this whole effort worth it?
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I have to agree. Running a server from home is difficult and is a pain. With there being so many reliable service out there to choose from and the pricing be cheaper that having to set one up at home, is it reall worth all the effort.
 
The power issue depends where in the world the person is based. In my 25 years living in the UK, our power went out maybe 10 times, if that. It was really rare.

Now here, in PA, it goes out maybe four or five times a year for brief periods. I ran a server from home (or halls) when I was in uni, and it worked fine. I had enough bandwidth through the JANET network, and used a PC as a server. It only managed a couple of pages, and gave me a chance to play around.

Otherwise, I don't think I would do this, certainly not to the point of structural alterations.
 
I guess I should have been more specific. It is a test/play server for the friend and since he resides in WA. there is no doubt in my mind with some of their winter storms how often the power could go out at any given time. Right now he is working to test out how to run a server for small gaming clams he belongs to.
 
Have your friend make sure he'll be allowed to run the server from home without his broadband provider throttling him or outright shutting him down.

Comcast has placed limits on their customers - fairly high limits for the majority of users, to be sure (250GB, starts this month) but it's now in their contracts. Other ISPs may have similar limits - though not all of them may own up to the limits until they're exceeded. Your friend may need to upgrade to a business account, if they haven't already, or find their service interrupted.

(A business account with Comcast is $150. A small managed dedicated server is $150 - though you can find better deals if you shop around and / or go for unmanaged. It might behoove you guys to check into something less traumatic than hosting a server out of someone's house. Just make sure the bandwidth allowances are enough for your needs.)
 
You shoud have fast dedicated connection to the internet if you wish to run the home based hosting. Otherwise you are unable tpo provide quality services!
 
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I dont remember what his ISP is but he has decent service (he resides in WA. so I am not sure what services there), and he is near the city so its not like he is stuck in the boonies or anything. Just about every other week I get a note from him that 'something is broken" but I swear he is just configuring something wrong. As far as I know its only him and maybe three others (somewhere in the US) that are testing it, so its not like there are 100's of people trying to hit it all at once.
 
Does he has enough bandwidth? hold a server in home is not a good idea lol~~
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Yes, but that is very helpful to learn how are things being proceed there.
All depend on the tearget you are going to reach with that
 
Hosting your servers in your home is definitely not the right way to start a hosting company.

Start out as a reseller and then when you can afford it lease a dedicated server from a provider that owns their own dc like theplanet. This is what we do so we basically have an entire IT at our disposal at the DC. We're also not stuck with old hardware when we need to upgrade the server. We simply migrate the sites to a new server at the dc. If you're using cpanel this is a piece of cake.
 
if you have a good connectivity, then its not so bad, but to sell services from home will not be a good practice, better do a co-location
 
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