I want to host my own website.

[Hau]

My company is currently using DSL (High-Speed Internet provided by Bell Canada)
It is possible for us to host our own domain under our server? Or would it be too slow for hosting. The speed of the DSL is 1Mps. We are using is Window 2000 Advance Server.

[DrZaius]

Hi Hau,

It is possible to set up a server and domain on a DSL line, but it would require:

1. Fast upload and download connection
2. Static (non-chancing) IP address

Check out DSL Webserver for plenty of into on setting up a DSL server. Hope that helps.

[freptide]

whatever you do dont put this picture of Pam Anderson on there!

[Hau]

Originally posted by DrZaius Hi Hau, It is possible to set up a server and domain on a DSL line, but it would require: Fast upload and download connection Static (non-chancing) IP address Check out DSL Webserver for plenty of into on setting up a DSL server. Hope that helps.

Thanks, that is really helpful. I will look it up.
a. I am not too sure if I have a fast upload and download connection. Here is the result I got from speedtest.net

Test Number: 1
Test Type: Download 1 Megabyte
Bytes Downloaded: 1048576 bytes
Download time: 10550 milliseconds.
Throughput: 0.758 Mbps

Test Number: 2
Test Type: Upload 1 Megabyte
Bytes Uploaded: 1048576 bytes
Upload time: 82660 milliseconds.
Throughput: 0.097 Mbps

Is that fast enough?

b. I could get my IP to stay consistance.

[shecky981]

yes, you can host your own website, however, be aware of a few things:

1. you must have a static IP address, which, your DSL provider can probabbly provide for you.

2. you must have a dedicated machine that is on 24/7 that JUST hosts your website. this machine needs at LEAST 512MB RAM, and a fast (i would reccomend SCSI) hard drive

3. you DSL provider must allow you to host your own site (many will specifically NOT let you do so)

4. bandwidth only matters in terms of convience to your guests. technically, you could host a website on a dialup 56K connection, however, i would not suggest it, as it would be insanely slow. We have a 1.1 Mbps DSL line (up and down) that we host a bunch of sites off of no problem. However, this is a commercial line, and costs $450 a month, and has 30 static IP addresses.

5. i would strongly suggest not even trying to host yer own site, you can find plently of webhosts that will host non-DB driven sites for $5 to $10 a month.

[Hau]

yeah... web hosting are fairly cheap. u could get a web host for only $30 a YEAR. The think is... I want to try out new things... Networking and Internet really interest me. As soon as I can get around with all this World Wide Web, I could provide internet service...