Webservers versus a home server

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kawipoo

What are individuals experience with have an outside webserver versus a home
server. My home server is limited to an upload rate of 350 Kb/sec and I was
wondering if there would be any performance gain by going to an outside
service. Does anyone know their typical upload rates?
 
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Jim Buyens

-----Original Message-----
What are individuals experience with have an outside
webserver versus a home server. My home server is
limited to an upload rate of 350 Kb/sec and I was
wondering if there would be any performance gain by
going to an outside service. Does anyone know their
typical upload rates?
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This depends a lot on the provider, but speeds of 10
Mb/sec and up are typical.

The biggest disadvantage of a home server, however, is
usually most cable modem and DSL providers disallow them.
For example, they block traffic arriving with a
destination port of 80.

The reason is that the providers have engineered their
network for high data volumes to the home sites, but low
data volumes coming out. Your monthly service would cost
more if it were engineered with the expectation of servers
hammering the outbound connection all day.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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Peter Taurins

I don't run a home server simply because I am not an expert in security, so
rather than risk the integrity of my server I choose to have my sites hosted
externally.

I would hazard a guess that most external sites are capable of bandwidth in
the megabit range, so probably significantly faster than your 350Kb outout.

Of course, the problem is not necessarily the output capability of your
connection, but also the download speed of the user.

If they are on dialup, then your upload speed would be sufficient for a
number of concurrent users. If you had 10 people requesting data AT THE SAME
TIME, you would suffer a bandwidth bottleneck.

It depends on how many concurrent connections you have and the volume of
data being requested.

If you know those stats, a simple calculation should tell you whether your
bandwidth is sufficient.

Peter.
 
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