RE: [PHP] Anyone running their own Servers & DNS versus renting space/services from an ISP or Hosting??

> I'm contemplating moving one of my larger sites off of a hosting company > over to my own PIII 1 Gigahertz. Thoughts right now are to use IIS 5.0 and > either SQL Server or MySQL. I can currently get a fixed IP address DSL > connection at 1.5 meg download and 512 Upload for fairly cheap. The reason I > would do this is control, control, control. In Australia, at least, (A)DSL services are presently subject to major service disruptions on an irregular basis. A hosting company has more, probably multihomed bandwidth than you, a reliable backup solution (you'd hope :)), and disaster recovery plans (again, you hope :)). You, on the other hand, have a (in Australia, at least) shoddy DSL connection, no (proven) backup system, and no disaster recovery plan (if your power goes out, your server's gone). Control, control, control often comes at the cost of reliability, uptime and client happiness. I wouldn't *dream* of moving a client's site from the hosting company to my own system - I don't want to be blamed for the downtime, and any server problems. Jason -- Jason Murray jasonm@melbourneit.com.au Web Design Team, Melbourne IT Fetch the comfy chair!