Self hosting a website

[Pete Allen]

Looking for a bit of advice from anyone a bit more knowledgeable than me, which is probably most

I'm thinking of hosting my website from my NAS system but, was wondering if there are any down sides to this, particularly regarding security.

If anyone has experience of this, I'd love to hear your take on the pro's & con's.

The NAS has capability to install Wordpress, Joomla etc.

Thanks.

 

[arad85]

You can host websites for a few £ a month.

Downsides of doing it yourself:

• You have to manage the connections in and out - i.e. port forwarding
• You are opening up yourself to the world - you will be probed - this may or may not be an issue
• Your ISP may explicitly disallow it
• Your web hits/use will be coming out of any ISP allowance
• Your bandwidth is limited to your upload speed
• Your website uptime is your responsibility
• Domains/subdomains etc... are all your responsibility and are limited by what your webserver can support

Even the geek I am I don't host my own website. I pay £3.30 a month to unlimitedwebhosting.co.uk where I can run as many websites as I like....

 

[Pete Allen]

Funnily enough Andy, that's who I'm with at the moment.

I've been having a lot of instances lately with websites being inaccessible and, email login failure, although their up time displays at 100%, just looking at other options.

I'll check on my ISP's rules re: permission.

Cheers

 

[neil_g]

For a professional site forget it. You have to consider the site will impact your internet speeds, if your upload speed is poor you're site will be slow, static ip are a good idea (extra cost, if your ISP will give you one), potential security issues etc etc.

A GOOD host will have much better reliability.

Switch to TSOhost.

 

[Dale_tem]

TSOHost

Unless it is for you and you alone, use a hosting company.

 

[Pete Allen]

Thanks guys, decided