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Higher Logic · 12-01-2004, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by digitalxtremist

to make things slightly more complicated - its not just the machine specs, bandwidth is very important. for example, I used to pay $900/mo for a t1 - then $800, then $600/mo -- and now I totally gave up on that route because a t1 is a mediocre fraction of what I get in terms of bandwidth by having a leased server on a world class network in new york.

if the next question is "what's bandwidth" -- visualize your server as some beverage, and your visitors trying to drink through a straw of variable size. the bigger the straw the more they get faster ----- bandwidth, the size of the pipe to the internet... most cable connections are 3mb downloading, 256 kb uploading (large difference)... a T1 is usually 1.544 up and ~1.544mb down (3.2 total).... vs the bigger lines like I'm on -- 45mb to 133mb....huge difference... it's VERY noticable if a server is on a low bandwidth connection

hope thats low on geekspeak

Exactly, your computer is like a car, it means nothing unless you have gas, or in this case, bandwidth (a good connection). Not just anyone can set up a server, you need to register a domain, have your computer secure, you're going to need routers and so on, and of course a very high speed connection. A T1 line is nice, but that's nothing anymore. You're better off just to lease a server if you have heavy traffic (like this site), or to just use a virtual server, which is where x-amount of people all use one server instead of just one person (a leased server) using their own server.

ImHosted.com is pretty cheap, something like $9/mo gets you a lot of bandwidth, space, and unlimited POP3 emails, etc.

Zilos · 12-07-2004, 07:57 AM

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$900/mo for a t1

Ouch! that could pay for the lease of a Porche! Im running my server on a cable connection, but that's gonna have to change once I have the cash.

idr · 02-06-2005, 09:52 PM

or you can rent a server fro 100 a month and have a 10mbit connection... and do what ever you want.

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