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| i have an extra pc...should i buy a domain name and use it for a server??? |
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| clanggedin:
I would use it for another cab and bag the web server idea. |
| GGKoul:
The Static IP would cause a problem if your running a network hub. As the hub takes care of the IP sharing. If you don't want to spend money, find a better "free" hosting plan. If you want to register your domain ($30/year) and use a pay hosting service. I recommend www.webmasters.com For $10 a month, they give a lot of bandwith and space to store everything you could ever want. You could even sell your excess bandwith and space by sub-domaining. -GGKoul |
| hulkster:
hmm...okay, no server then! ill just use the pc for something else. thanks guys. |
| patrickl:
Setting up your own webserver is a lot of work. You need to monitor the thing constantly and make sure you install all security patches. If you want to solve the bandwidth problem look at your website. Reduce the graphic elements to a smaller filesize. That picture of your cab alone is 0.25MB you can reduce that to far less. The construction page has 23 images of around 60KB. I'd say every visiter to your site will cost you about 2MB bandwidth. You can easily bring that down. If you resize the pictures in the files as opposed to in the page (the file is 640x480, but you show them as 477x357) and increase the compression rate these pictures can be reduced to something like 15KB without any noticable quality loss. That would allow 4 times as many people to visit your site. |
| SirPeale:
Are you sure you have 33M of *bandwidth* and not *storage?* |
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