Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 03:16:30 09/29/04
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On September 29, 2004 at 05:03:32, Aaron Gordon wrote: >There are about 27,000 counter-strike gaming servers running on peoples >computers all over the USA. I have my webpages DNS going straight to my cable >modem and run my FTP as well as email from my own server. No problems there. >I've had my ISPs technicians come in (fixing cable modem problems) and have seen >my entire setup.. which includes my server routing out multiple computers >through my connection. They really couldn't care less. > >I seriously doubt an ISP is going to care if you run a forum off your >connection. You pay for the connection and you can download/upload constanly if >you want. The forum is going to be MUCH less harsh on the connection than that. I don't think that is a good way to run a website. I think this is what Steve is trying to say. He has done a quality job running this website. There are plenty of people willing to take over, but the quality is likely to suffer. No offense, but your proposal is such an example. It may work fine, or it may go offline everytime the "sort of static" IP address changes, or when the ISP decides you're violating the acceptable usage policy, or when your electricity goes out, or when you need to replace your motherboard, or when you need to replace your motherboard but can't afford a new motherboard until next month because you had to buy a new air conditioner unit this month, or whatever else happens at your home that a business backed website is better prepared to handle. >There should be little reason to post pictures, but I'm sure it will happen as a >rare occurence. It shouldn't be hard on bandwidth though (being so rare). The difference is that a CCC post is basically the message content slapped between some pre-tags, while the other uses all kinds of HTML and small images to look pretty. A picture (even a small one) is worth a thousand words :)
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