Probably, but the hosters I use keep going down the pan. :( Lycos is bowing out next week, and the people taking 'em over want me to take out 2 more very costly packages wiv em as well as the payment for taking on my existing sites. I've had a lil look around at other hosting sites, but I'm not sure which one would be the best. It's for MonMin.
There's also a friend's site that I would happily host (if I knew how.) I know that he has no intention to pay someone else, as he used to use Freeserve and refuses to part with any money for it. It's a site that really needs to continue.
if you host your own site it will be slow (only as fast as your upload speed on your connection) and you'll find probably not that reliable (I'm forever breaking things, or rebooting for various reasons, or simply a power cut or hardware failure)
it really depends what your site is, and how important it is that it's not offline too much.
I'm building a new server this weekend, that's costing me around 300 quid, cause the old one is just too unreliable, even for something as trivial as the csscgc and my personal blog (and cause I can't help but be constantly tinkering with something :-))
I hosted the RZX Archive on my home PC for 4 years. It was great at first; total control over hosting - you choose the databases, etc, and space was limited only by your hard drive size. It was an extension of what I did in my job: ASP.NET and SQL Server development.
Later though, as the site became busy, it became a pain in the council gritter. All your bandwidth was taken, so you couldn't download or browse or owt. Plus, as guesser said, the download speed is limited to your upload speed.
I second what Daren said about hosting your own server. It will quickly become a pain the arse as bandwidth is taken up and on top of that you'll have hackers trying to access your system as the IP address will be public (and easily attainable).
Save yourself a lot of hassle and get it hosted properly; it doesn't cost a lot nowadays and they'll do all of the hard work for you (apart from creating the web pages of course). There are some free ones out there (Somee I've used in the past) but very often they will force ads onto your pages and/or pull the site if they feel it's being used improperly (see their T&C's).
As for your mate, if it's a site that must be maintained get him to fork out some of the moolah!
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Certainly it would take up significantly less time.
What do you want to publish?
There's also a friend's site that I would happily host (if I knew how.) I know that he has no intention to pay someone else, as he used to use Freeserve and refuses to part with any money for it. It's a site that really needs to continue.
it really depends what your site is, and how important it is that it's not offline too much.
I'm building a new server this weekend, that's costing me around 300 quid, cause the old one is just too unreliable, even for something as trivial as the csscgc and my personal blog (and cause I can't help but be constantly tinkering with something :-))
Later though, as the site became busy, it became a pain in the council gritter. All your bandwidth was taken, so you couldn't download or browse or owt. Plus, as guesser said, the download speed is limited to your upload speed.
Save yourself a lot of hassle and get it hosted properly; it doesn't cost a lot nowadays and they'll do all of the hard work for you (apart from creating the web pages of course). There are some free ones out there (Somee I've used in the past) but very often they will force ads onto your pages and/or pull the site if they feel it's being used improperly (see their T&C's).
As for your mate, if it's a site that must be maintained get him to fork out some of the moolah!
What's/Where's MonMin?
www.monumentminiatures.co.uk :)
My friends site is, http://www.freewebs.com/theleagueoffreemen/
Easier said than done, hehe!
Thanks all for the advice. Will check out more cheap hosting. :)
Nice minis, strange site. Why are the pages all image maps?
No idea. Put it together in dreamweaver and that's just the way it came out. Beats me! :)