When I start churning out websites, I plan on hosting them on my own Web Server. I'm curious if my connection would suffice. I'm getting 2MB per second. Here are my projected website statistics:
How large are the page and image sizes? How long can you stand your sites being down for?
With your volume, I’m inclined to say that your 2 Mbps connection is fine. However, a good hosting provider can provide you with better uptime and speed.
I neglected to say that I would like to add System Admin to my resume, and capitalize on in the future. To gain experience I was going to get real-world experience by actually doing it, instead of a “paper” MCSE.
Anyways, i’m not sure of the size per-page, but website uptime doesn’t factor in. The websites are not going to be e-commerence or have members, so if it’s down for a day, no sweat.
I was just querying to see if it is enough to accomplish my goals.
If I need to increase my speed, I can, up to 5MB. Just don’t want to spend more money then I have to, to do what I need.
You’ll definitely learn a lot about sever administration by running your own server. 2 Mbps upload should be more than enough. I run an image heavy site that gets more than 70k page views per month and it barely uses .2 Mbps.
Can we assume that when you mention 2 megabytes (2MB) and 5 megabytes (5MB) in your posts above, you actually mean 2 megabits per second (2Mbps) and 5 megabits per second (5Mbps), respectively?
2Mbps will be plenty with that low visitors count.
Your desire to save some money is understandable, though if management is not something you plan to get, you could probably find a decent VPS in the $20 range, and learn what you need just the same. You’ll probably get access to a 100mbps line (shared with the other customers), and a little bit of support when you need it.
If you didn’t keep your computer on 24/7 up until now, doing so from now on will probably increase your electricity bill a few $ anyway, possibly close enough to $20.