The Opportunity: My house has two wireless links, soon to be load balanced (so if one goes out things are still fine.) The combined speed is over 250 kBytes/sec. I have buku little linux systems about the house. My Dad offered to let us set up a web server with a fixed IP.
The Interpretation: We could host our blogs more cheaply and with greater flexibility. We would also have room to upload large and even very large files.
The Cost: The base system (about $40 for the parts to a PII 300 with a 10-20 Gb drive), the time of Ardith or other approved guru to set up the system with their favorite flavor of Linux. My Dad offered to lend us the bandwidth for free, but we probably ought to give him a little per month.
The Drawbacks: What we have works. We are lazy.
Posted by Moore at May 14, 2004 11:19 PM | TrackBack1) The fact of the matter is that while there are financial considerations, this setup does work.
2) Professional hosting is a good thing, especially when you consider that someone else keeps the server patched and monitors for hackers. Oh... and they have battery backup and persistant uptime.
3) While a larger pipeline would be nice along with an alleviation of bandwidth considerations, the fact of the matter is that we're not even beginning to approach the limit of what we can do on this server.
4) $11/month divided between 8 of us with a possibility of more recruits... you just can't get much better than that.