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On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 22:58 +0100, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I'm not expecting masses of traffic. The cheepest offer I could find for > hosting and domain names was around £60.00. Now If I could do the same by > just doing the IP fowarding and other things explaines it works out a lot > cheeper. Yes it will be an interesting learning excercise also but it's > mostly because I can't justify the £60.00 on a website to my wife. Thanks > for the advise about doing this. > Bear in mind that if you are going to host a website you will need to leave the computer on all the time. If it's as super fast as you say it is, it presumably draws a fair amount of electricity. If you factor this in over the course of a year it's likely paying someone else £60 is actually cheaper. Sophos Plc, The Pentagon, Abingdon Science Park, Abingdon, OX14 3YP, United Kingdom. Company Reg No 2096520. VAT Reg No GB 348 3873 20. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html