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[ShooTmE]

Ok, I have my own little sever setup on my pc, with everything i could ever want. I took 3 speed tests and got on average a little over 1 mbps down, and around 350 kbps up. Would this be suficent to host my own little web site? Or will it be really slow. I had people download from my server before and they said it lightning fast. :cool2:

[Robert]

350kbps upload would be sufficient to host a small, static page website. Nothing intense and nothing with high volume of users.

Tho I would check w/ your ISP to make sure servers are allowed (which probably they aren't) so you don't get your connection terminated.

[ShooTmE]

Ok, ill check into that. Also i was wondering...
Im running IIS 5.0 and I keep my pc on almost all the time. Would the site be down if i had to reset my pc, or would it not?

[Robert]

Originally posted by ShooTmE
Ok, ill check into that. Also i was wondering...
Im running IIS 5.0 and I keep my pc on almost all the time. Would the site be down if i had to reset my pc, or would it not?

Of course it would. Anytime your computer is off, your website cannot be accessed.

[notnamed]

That should be plenty fast enough :classic2: My 50Kbits down 30KBits up loads nicely for most people.

[Bruce]

Originally posted by notnamed
My 50Kbits down... loads nicely for most people. I don't think you're 50kBps would be loading for anyone but yourself. ;)

And on second thought, damn you and everyone else for having a faster upload than me. :(

[notnamed]

Oh but it does...that's how I share files over IM :classic2: Not always the fastest, but it does load. Example: http://shimmerflint.us:8080/random/comic03.png (if it doesn't work try again later, my computer might be off.)

[Bruce]

That's your upstream.

I was saying that your 50kBps downstream isn't used by anyone other that yourself (unless of course people upload to your machine).

[ShooTmE]

update on my server idea :) : Well, IIS 5.0 didn't work out to well. For some reason i started getting errors so i got apache. Apache sure changed since i last used it. But anyways, i got my site up and going now, under contruction tho, but i tryed downloading something from my ip, tha i dled off of another site, and it dled nearly 4 times faster!!! :D

[Bruce]

Well obviosuly it's going to download faster if you're downloading it from your PC. :confused2

[ShooTmE]

No i was on my other pc... :coolmusic

[Robert]

Hmm...

so you downloaded a file from 1 PC to another PC using the same connection and you found it be 4x faster?

[ShooTmE]

noo, differnt connection on my pc at my dads... :applaudin