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**ShooTmE** · January 3rd, 2004, 06:11

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.

**Robert** · January 3rd, 2004, 06:54

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** · January 3rd, 2004, 07:20

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** · January 3rd, 2004, 07:31

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** · January 3rd, 2004, 09:27

That should be plenty fast enough

My 50Kbits down 30KBits up loads nicely for most people.

**Bruce** · January 3rd, 2004, 09:35

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** · January 3rd, 2004, 13:26

Oh but it does...that's how I share files over IM

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** · January 3rd, 2004, 13:53

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** · January 4th, 2004, 18:49

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!!!