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    Posted: 05 March 2006 at 9:11pm
This angers me a lot, actually.
 
You have a broadband internet provider (cable or DSL) that only allows you 100 MB of space to have your own personal webpage on their servers, but will not allow you to have your own web server at home because it is "shared bandwidth" and thus against their Acceptable Use Policy.
 
Aaah...but for $20, $30, or $40 more per month, you can have a business account with them with a static IP address and maybe THEN you will be allowed to host your own web server.  However, the up/down bandwidth may or may not be as fast as the bandwidth you had with a residential account.
 
Does this sound familiar?
 
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This would anger me but it doesn't.

I have a business account because it is paid for by a third-party, and a business account is required for a different business address.

However because I live on the edge of the exchange boundary I only get 1.1mb down and 256kb up. Having a home web server would be pointless for me.

As I get decent hosting for £17 pounds a year having a home web server just isn't worth it.

BT also charge an extra £12 a month for a static address.
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I am in the same situation as you HUW.. I only get 1mb, I am really gutted, because most people that I know are up to 3mb and some are on 8mb.

IMHO the best ISP in the UK at the moment is PlusNet (www.plus.net). They have a homeworker package for about £17.00 a month and that INCLUDES a Static IP address. Infact all their packages include static IP, which sure beats BT's £12.00 a month just for an IP address.


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I looked into housing my own webserver, but it really is hard to make it worth it.  The biggest problem is upstream with connections.  Very expensive!
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Originally posted by Gullanian Gullanian wrote:

I looked into housing my own webserver, but it really is hard to make it worth it.  The biggest problem is upstream with connections.  Very expensive!
 
What did they claim they could give you as upstream bandwidth?
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Stop complaining about your connection guys, im using satellite :'(
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well webserver in home is not worth unless u are stealing some ISP line and have multi megabit connection

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I run the webwiz forum from my home machine on a home Telewest package. Advertised stats is 4mb down and 384kbps up.
I just use no-ip's prog to update ip address if modem gets turned off for any reason.
Stable and fast, any downloads hover around 22kb/s though if files are downloaded.

Edited by Ninjai - 06 March 2006 at 11:21am
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