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[Hammereditor5]

so you're thinking of completely hosting from a home computer??? you know how unreliable that is, right?

First, remember that this will be on a separate, dedicated machine set aside only for hosting. It's not going to be my personal computer.
I can always refund clients for power outages (if it's paid).
But my Internet connection never had problems with reliability or connection drops or anything like that. The ping is almost as good as a datacenter's.

The hosting service will probably be free, since I would have a LOT of capacity for a maximum of $50/month.

Even though home-hosting will be less reliable, the tremendous advantage of cheap hardware and the cheap upgrading cost is too much to turn this method down. I also do not care about using consumer-grade hardware and overclocking it, since this presents more than enough performance to compensate for the slightly reduced reliability.

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[Greek2me]

Wasn't there a problem last time where your ISP prohibits exactly what you're planning on doing in the contract?

[0xBRIANSMITH]

SpeedTest of your home internet, hammer?

[Operator¹]

Wasn't there a problem last time where your ISP prohibits exactly what you're planning on doing in the contract?

he's already addressed that

[Hammereditor5]

Wasn't there a problem last time where your ISP prohibits exactly what you're planning on doing in the contract?

Business plans let you host as many servers as you want.

[EazyE]

Business plans let you host as many servers as you want.

FiOS lmfao

[Hammereditor5]

SpeedTest of your home internet, hammer?

Advertised is 50 / 25, real speed is 60 / 29.
It would be the same with the business plan.

[nerraD]

First, remember that this will be on a separate, dedicated machine set aside only for hosting. It's not going to be my personal computer.
I can always refund clients for power outages (if it's paid).
But my Internet connection never had problems with reliability or connection drops or anything like that. The ping is almost as good as a datacenter's.

The hosting service will probably be free, since I would have a LOT of capacity for a maximum of $50/month.

Even though home-hosting will be less reliable, the tremendous advantage of cheap hardware and the cheap upgrading cost is too much to turn this method down. I also do not care about using consumer-grade hardware and overclocking it, since this presents more than enough performance to compensate for the slightly reduced reliability.

home broadband speed will never beat a datacenter network speed.. plus you'll be using it too

i've got speeds at 50mbps upload and download says my provider yet i only get around 15mbps max, not even that in most cases. broadband speed checkers are stuff in this case of deterring the advertising speed from the actual speed

[Hammereditor5]

yet i only get around 15mbps max, not even that in most cases. broadband speed checkers are stuff in this case of deterring the advertising speed from the actual speed

That's because your ISP is a turd, and uses an oversold network.
However Verizon FiOS more than matches it's advertised speeds.

plus you'll be using it too

The rest of the devices will be doing mostly client-sided stuff, which uses more download than upload.

[0xBRIANSMITH]

Advertised is 50 / 25, real speed is 60 / 29.
It would be the same with the business plan.

That is not nearly enough for a hosting service.

[Hammereditor5]

That is not nearly enough for a hosting service.

The Hammereditor + Pacnet hosting service had 10 clients, and thrived with just 5 Mbps.

[Bisjac]

That is only 6.25m limit bandwidth
I assume the upload Is a standard package maybe 20% of that.

If anyone tried watching a Netflix video or downloading a single torrent in your household. Your 10 clients will feel it.

[Hammereditor5]

That is only 6.25m limit bandwidth
I assume the upload Is a standard package maybe 20% of that.

Nope, Verizon usually exceeds the 50 / 25 Mbps. It's doing it right now:

[Bisjac]

Oh I thought you had the 5 mbps that was mentioned lol

[Hammereditor5]

Oh I thought you had the 5 mbps that was mentioned lol

That was in 2012.