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20-04-09, 01:21 PM | #31 |
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Re: Building your own website
am an ed man meself oops, sorry for the derail, will keep an eye on this as well, quite interestingly differing views on how best to do it Baph, your the resident guru on this kinda stuff, a guy in our office does all his stuff in .net and ajax but asked the question ref hosting it on his own hardware at home. Apart from the obvious hardware/server issues, how would this work He has a 2Mbit line and if his site is hanging off the end of it (disregarding all other hardware), if a user browsed to his site using another 2Mbit line, would that user be downloading pages at the fastest speed of the host server line (approx 500kbit upload) ??? The guy is trying to get his head round it but it kinda makes sense to me as (I think) technically his hardware is pushing data via the browser requests hope this makes sense Last edited by scooby2102; 20-04-09 at 01:44 PM. |
20-04-09, 01:25 PM | #32 |
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Re: Building your own website
Publisher - oh dear (for consistency )
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20-04-09, 04:57 PM | #33 | |
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Hosting a server from home is OK if you're only doing websites, but for anything fancy, hosted servers are so cheap these days, there's little point paying your home electricity bill to run it. Basically, hardware runs constantly, software running to receive HTTP requests & respond with data. That's all there is to it. If you want to know more about it, please stick up a seperate thread as I don't really want to derail this one too much. Though I will say that I really wouldn't bother hosting from home on a 2Mbit line these days. The upload speed will be terrible. |
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20-04-09, 07:31 PM | #34 |
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If your objectives are to keep costs as low as possible then why not use a public sharing site. They are mostly free and you will gain from the social networks you create. Flkr is a good example or even Facebook - why not? Just set up a business profile on here and then create your own one-page corporate site with your profesisonal contact information - link it back to to the Social networks... They are a great way of gaining support for business and the best form of marketing at the moment.
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20-04-09, 09:26 PM | #35 | |
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+1.
I've built several sites with WordPress and it's great for clients who want to be able to update their site but who are not particularly web-literate. Quote:
1Gb of space is a lot. Why would you have high resolution photographs online? They should be properly optimised for web use as they only need to look good on screen, to advertise the OP's photography service. Anyway, there's no harm in starting small. Most providers will happily upgrade you, should you need it. Full disclosure: I run a web hosting company, but since I haven't mentioned it consider me knowledgeable but not biased
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Just get some cheap hosting and do everything with ready made open-source software, there's loads of free stuff out there that covers most angles. I use Eclipse+PDT with a little Aptana juice for most of my work stuff, I try to avoid vim where possible. |
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