Running website from home PC

First of all, almost all broadband providers do not allow this (read the user agreement), and since Nimda, most of them are even blocking traffic to TCP port 80, which would block any attempt of having a server on your connection.....

 

It can be done, but as Arie has stated, your ISP definitely forbids it. It is your moral choice. Running a wevb server will slow down the network for other users on you cable node.

Plus, above all, you do not have enough bandwidth to run a web server. Others would be downloading from you based upon your upload cap set by your isp. I doubt your upload is greater than 128 Kilobits/sec as that is the average cable cap by isp's.

My upload is capped at 196 Kb/sec and that is nowhere neare enough to run a server.

If you want others to be able to connect to you and download content then use a file sharing app like an instant messenger app or a p2p sharing app.

 

My upload is capped at 196 Kb/sec and that is nowhere neare enough to run a server.

At the moment our server is pushing 50KB/sec... that's 4Gb for the full day. Only big Web sites will push more data then that....

A normal day usually runs around 2-2.5GB. Around 45,000 - 55,000 page views....

Now it depends... if you realy mean Kilo Bytes or Kilo Bits.... Mostly ISP's talk about Bits.... you have to divide that by 8 to get to the Bytes.

With a "personal" or "hobby" site you'll have more than enaugh on a 24.5KB/sec, or even 16KB/sec connection....

 

Kb = kilobits

KB= kilobytes

Arie, you are referring to the total bandwidth being served and not the bandwidth that is possible for any one given connection to the server.

For instance, a 56K user can only download at a max of about 5-6 KB/sec from your server. Therefore, your server can only dishout 5-6KB/sec to that 56K user. But someone with a cable connection for instance can pull data from your server at 150 KB/sec.

If your servers "serves" 1 MB of files in a given period of time, then that is the bandwidth used. That figure is different than the bandwidth that the server is capable of serving, eg the server is on a T-3 or OC line that has a finite bandwidth allocation. (speed)

What I am saying is that my 196 Kb/sec upload cap will limit the amount of users that can connect to me and get the same speed of file transfer. It will degrade as more simultaneous connections occur. And, the upload bandwidth being used will degrade the entire cable node for all subscribers on that node.

Sure, a small server that only serves a few files to a few people will work just fine, but the bandwidth upload cap prevents any sort of site that gets continual trafic. The content will take forever to load in a viewer's browser at that rate.

Your server rate of 50KB/sec is an averaged out rate. It's the combination of all users' connections during the day. Most viewer's here are downloading via 56K modems at 3-5 KB/sec. if they are lucky. My average rate of download from your server is approx 140 KB/sec. Pages load fast.

 

Yep TonyT, you are right.

Again, for a personal Web site (pictures of my family and "Joe the cat ") would be fine on such a connection, but any type of more "serious" Web site would need a more serious solution.

There are many Web hosts which offer free, or near free hosting, which would probably be fine.