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Answer» I have a website up and running fine. Recently, a sub-domain has been created. I want it to map to my wordpress blog.. now my moot point is why wordpress charges for simple domain mapping whereas google blogger provides the same mechanism for free?Your google blog shows google in the web address where it's located, right? Is that acceptable to you or do you want a more person address to your blog, such as mysite.com/myblog? Self-hosting is the way to go. Start here: http://pomeroy.me/easily-host-your-own-web-sites/Quote from: Rob Pomeroy on July 12, 2013, 03:30:35 AM Self-hosting is the way to go. Start here: http://pomeroy.me/easily-host-your-own-web-sites/ Hosting from home is quite cool to play with but I don't really feel it's worth it for any production sites. Most residential connections have very low upload speeds compared, then you need to work around dynamic IP addresses.etc. I have a small home server (Atom D525) that doens't really host any websites but the power consumption of that costs substantially more alone compared to a cheap web hosting package. That is why I ended up collocating my main server to a datacenter - Cost of electricity, painful upload speed and a single dynamic IP.Quote from: camerongray on July 18, 2013, 06:28:09 AM I have a small home server (Atom D525) that doens't really host any websites but the power consumption of that costs substantially more alone compared to a cheap web hosting package. You raise a really interesting point. Atom-based - so we're looking at a nettop or something similar running off a power brick? You'd be drawing a maximum of 5A - let's say a generous 100W. Cost per KWh is in the order of 15p or so in the UK, but let's say 20p. So that's 2p/h. £15 a month or less. Rackspace's Cloud servers start at 2p/h, so on face value that's comparable on price. For that 2p/h, you get 512MB RAM and 20GB disk. Ah, but you must add 8p/GB monthly for upstream bandwidth. And if you want to take backups, you have to pay for storage (starting at 7p per GB per month). Hardware firewall is extra (starting at £14 pcm). And so on. With my server based at home, I can serve files on my LAN at LAN-side speeds (most important for video streaming). I can spin up and spin down new virtual servers as and when I want, without paying anything extra. I've mirrored the server to another server off-site, so I have DR plus failover capabilities, plus off-site backup. Yes, I'm responsible for the hardware, but the benefit is extreme flexibility. I'm limited by my upstream bandwidth, but by the time I have enough traffic to cause a bottleneck, I expect any websites to be paying for the cost of a synchronous fibre CIRCUIT (and then some). If you're capable of running a home-based server, it's well worth the learning experience. And if that's too intimidating, something like a Synology NAS box can do much of the above at a low entry price with a very shallow learning curve.@Rob Pomeroy Rob, I've just lately got some "occupational" varifocals - optimised (lower) for reading books, etc in the hand or on a desk, and (upper) using a monitor, and I thought I was getting on OK, but boy does your geek-and-dummy site play *censored* with my eyes! It's the white font on a black background MAINLY. I'll maybe dial down the contrast on the monitor. Quote from: Rob Pomeroy on July 26, 2013, 05:17:22 AM You raise a really interesting point. It's a small custom built machine in an ITX server case with a MicroATX FSP PSU. Pulls 38w from the wall. I worked it out to cost around £5/mo where a cheap web hosting plan can cost less. Obviously the server can do a lot more for the money, but it's overkill for a wordpress blog. The main issue is residential broadband connections really aren't fast enough to compete with a proper web host. Not to mention that some residential ISPs do not allow the hosting of webservers over their connections. Obviously for anything more than a basic site you will need dedicated hardware, for that I have a colocated machine where I run everything in virtual machines. Cost wise the colocation is very good compared to hosting from home as it includes the power, cooling and a very high end gigabit network connection.Many, many companies offer web-hosting for a domain name. The typical cost is most often between $2 to $9 per month on a one year contract. You will have about 500 MB of disk space on a server shared with others, but you own private user area. My WordPress blog is running most of the time. THEE are outages because it is a cheap service. But goo enough for me. Still, I don't get why the sub-domain is and issue. I have a domain on a sub-domain and not issue about paying anything more. What am I missing? Why is using a sub-domain important? |
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