Set up a personal server or use a free one

[wrigh_g]

Hi,

I dont know weather or not to set up a personal server, or just use a free one.

any ideas, i have no money!

[chromate]

What exactly do you mean by a "personal server"?

[Mike]

I think he means to set one up on his machine.

[wrigh_g]

Yes, one running on one of my 5 machines.....

[MarkB]

If you can maintain a connection to it, at a reasonable speed, then I don't see why you couldn't run it on your own machine.

[wrigh_g]

My machines specs are:

Machine 1 - :
P4 2.2GHz
256MBs Ram
40GB HDD

Machine 2 -:
P2 266MHz
256MBs RAM
4GB HDDs

Both can have a connection of 512KBs, and will be on all day (which i am normmally). These are the only two which i think are worthy of setting up a server. Tothers are a laptop and two VERY old machines.

I was thinking of setting a server on a seperate partition on machine 1. Any ideas?

[MarkB]

Put the entire machine towards running a server, otherwise you will do your site/s a disservice.

[wrigh_g]

i am hoping to get a dedicated one in the new year, but i need a quick place to store a start up site. Thanks for you help though

[Mike]

Are you running it off your ISP account which you use for normal use? If so, checking with them may be an idea.

I think I read somewhere to do something like this is against some ISP's TOS.

[wrigh_g]

Already checked...... its seems ok but i had better make sure

[incka]

BT says in the agreement that you cannot use a server throught their ISP...

[wrigh_g]

What?


Where

[incka]

It does in mine...

[wrigh_g]

ill cheack it out later

[incka]

Got to go now