[kwlug-disc] Website hosting

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DynDNS - you could, but you don't want to. You'd have to trigger a DNS 
update process at each dyndns change. Fine for yourself / testing, 
particularly for meatmine.dynamicdns.com, not so much for others, like 
just meatmine.com. If you can purchase a static ip with your home 
provider, all this is solved. May want to check your terms of use, 
though - many providers don't 'allow' servers.

Home viability will also be a matter of the uptime you want, whether 
your provider is unlimited, reliable power, willing to live with lower 
home speed if your website is getting heavy use, and so on. (Go on 
vacation, no turning off of computer, and what do you do if it stops 
responding while you're away?)

Absolutely worth doing for your own testing / trial purposes.

You'll also be subject to attack (script kiddies, pointless connection 
attempts and so on) so will want a sure compartmentalization of traffic. 
A bunch of topics all on their own.

Certainly a vm is a good place to get your feet wet with. Particularly 
if you don't allow it access to the outside world. e.g. ssh in as usual, 
then port map to the 80. Let's you play and experiment without the 
firewall issues in the mean time.

I'll leave the rest for Khalid, he will be much better on that than I 
ever will.

On 14-06-10 03:37 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> No, I'm not paying that much.. I'll have to dig up the bills to be sure,
> but I'm thinking it's around $100/year per site.
>
> General Linux sysadmin tasks are no problem, I've just never hosted from my
> house before.  Should I build a VM to run these on?  What about DNS?  I use
> DynDNS for my own machines (for remoting in) but would I be able to use my
> existing website names with them?  As you can see, it's n00b questions
> here... but I certainly look forwarding to learning about this stuff.
>
>
>
> On 10 June 2014 15:09, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:57 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I currently run two websites that are hosted on myhosting.com.  One is
>>> for a charity I help out and the other is my own blog.  Everytime I see the
>>> charges on my Visa bill I wonder if there's a cheaper solution. I pay for
>>> both my own site and the charity's, so any cost savings would be
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> It says $40 a month per site. So are you paying $80 a month for two sites
>> or using one instance to host both sites?
>>
>>   Do any of you guys use a hosting service and if so, which one and are
>>> they any good?
>>>
>>
>> I use Linode, and highly recommend them. They start at $20 a month, and
>> depending on your sites traffic, one instance may be able to handle both
>> sites.
>>
>> My only real requirements are Wordpress capable (i.e. both sites are
>>> predominantly Wordpress generated) and a few email accounts.  I don't need
>>> anything too fancy.
>>>
>>
>> Did you look into wordpress.com? They have a free tier. Perhaps that
>> would be enough for your needs.
>>
>>
>>>   I know somebody in this mail list is going to suggest that I host these
>>> myself but I'm not sure if I'm technically savvy enough to do this.  If you
>>> can loan me a copy of "web hosting for dummies" maybe I could look into
>>> it...
>>>
>>> Please let me know your thoughts on this!
>>>
>>
>> How good are you with general Linux sysadmin tasks?
>>
>> --
>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>> 2bits.com, Inc.
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