[thelist] my own server, or not?
Peter Van Dijck
peter at vardus.com
Sun Aug 13 10:22:59 CDT 2000
I am VERY tempted to get my own server for only 29 pounds a month. I'll
prob. also pay the support, so +5 pounds. And I realise I'll probably have
to pay 100 pound the first year when I mess up and they need to do
something manually for me. So that's 500 pounds for a year.
I've got the digitalspace.net deal now for 36$ a year X 8 sites. That's 150
pounds a year. But I can't install php4 or anything, and they are slow.
Seems my own server would be way faster.
So my questions: what am I missing in these calculations? 500 pounds is an
investment, so I want to make the right choice. Also: when their service
gets popular (as it will), can that really slow down my server? Or doesn't
it work like that?? I know that on digitalspace I share server with lots of
other sites, and it does get really slow.
One other thing, from my 8 sites, there is right now only one serious one
(popular one), so the others are basically fine on their slow host. It's
just that I can't install PHP4 and things...
And finally, has anyone experience with these cobalt raqs, or with
powerraq? Are the cobalt raqs easy to use, or do they have quirks?
http://powerraq.com/ offer the deal.
Thanks for your help, I find it hard to make such a heavy decision...
Peter
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