Hosting from home?

[KensonPlays]

If I were to use my desktop or something (for a small semi-private forum), would I be able to host it at my new apartment? They offer 200 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up at the minimum plan, with an offer for 400/20 at the next level up.

Desktop Specs:
gtx 1070
32gb 2400 Mhz ram
i7-6700.

 

[BoostN]

You can setup a nice decent forum for $5 a month on a unmanaged server like Digital Ocean. Much safer, much easier. I would recommend the software stack https://centminmod.com/ as it's a shell installer and will provide a great starting point with tutorials and is perfect for a XF forum.

 

[Alpha1]

20mbit up is not much.

 

[KensonPlays]

You can setup a nice decent forum for $5 a month on a unmanaged server like Digital Ocean. Much safer, much easier. I would recommend the software stack https://centminmod.com/ as it's a shell installer and will provide a great starting point with tutorials and is perfect for a XF forum.

I will likely be unable to afford much more than that. I don't have the skills to setup a vps or anything of my own, never set one up before.

20mbit up is not much.

But for a small forum with 100 or less total members, with only like 2-3 on average at most, wouldn't that be enough?

 

[AndrewSimm]

Back up power and redundancy is what you are missing. I average about 200 down and 400 up. I dream of the day when I can convert one of my closets to a server closet, but that day isn't' today.

 

[AndrewSimm]

I will likely be unable to afford much more than that. I don't have the skills to setup a vps or anything of my own, never set one up before.


But for a small forum with 100 or less total members, with only like 2-3 on average at most, wouldn't that be enough?

What else are you doing with that computer and network?

 

[Jake B.]

It's likely against your ISP's TOS to do that anyways

 

[AndrewSimm]

It's likely against your ISP's TOS to do that anyways

That is a good point.

You also would want a static IP address.

I guess your ISP wouldn't have an issue if you paid for some premium service that allowed this and supplied the single iP.

$5 VPS is the way to go.

 

[whynot]

If I were to use my desktop or something (for a small semi-private forum), would I be able to host it at my new apartment? They offer 200 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up at the minimum plan, with an offer for 400/20 at the next level up.

I guess that 400/20 upgrade would cost much more than getting a decent host.
Your desktop should be on for 24 hours per day.
For how long could it serve you?

 

[frm]

I would suggest getting on Lightsail and running a free instance for 30 days. Try setting up CMM and XF on CentOS 7.

Seems to me that you do have $5 extra if you can contemplate between 200/10 and 400/20 as I'm sure the difference is more than $5 between those two packages (more or less). If not, I'm sure it still exceeds $3.50, the lowest cost of Lightsail / Vultr instances (which I've run XF on -- slow to install software [CMM], but 2-3 users won't be a problem with XF). And if the difference is more than $5, just settle on a shared host with cPanel if you're uncomfortable with command-line after 30 days.

If CMM is too hard to grasp after 30 days, you can always get a $5 Lightsail plan with Plesk as it'll give a graphical interface to work with adding domains, databases, making backups, uploading files, etc.

 

[HappyWorld]

I don't have the skills to setup a vps or anything of my own, never set one up before.

Then you can use shared hosting. Easier to use, cheaper price too.

 

[KensonPlays]

Sorry for not checking back haha.

I've gone with HostGator Cloud for 3 months, while I explore my options.

I've also found out that I may lose my entire income starting next month, so something will have to be figured out.