Hosting a Dedicated Server From Home

[Taz]

Will it be a good idea to host my own dedicated server from home if not why not. Also if I need a ISP how much will they charge and how are they able to host us without a ISP. I have clear. Is there a way I can host my own dedicated server from home without having to pay ISP charges?

 

[JedoChristo]

I've heard many times from people that that wasn't a good idea.

I will try to get the answer on why is it a bad idea and i'll get back to you!

Thanks

 

[USHost247]

Reason why its bad idea:

If you plan on using that dedicated server for Web hosting, it may not be a good idea to host from your house. the reason behind this is because you personally will be responsible for any hardware failures. You will also be responsible for the security of the server as well as other things that data centers take care of for you, say if you rent a dedicated server in a data center somewhere you're not the technician that's constantly working on the dedicated server. What if you were doing a web hosting company that you have probably 50 people that relies on you to have their website up online constantly 24 seven and then boom your hard drive goes out and you lose everything. You will be personally responsible to go out to the store. Purchase a new hard drive and input into the computer and then everything back up yourself.

 

[Luke]

It could cost a lot too.

 

[Rick Ace]

Reason why its bad idea:

If you plan on using that dedicated server for Web hosting, it may not be a good idea to host from your house. the reason behind this is because you personally will be responsible for any hardware failures. You will also be responsible for the security of the server as well as other things that data centers take care of for you, say if you rent a dedicated server in a data center somewhere you're not the technician that's constantly working on the dedicated server. What if you were doing a web hosting company that you have probably 50 people that relies on you to have their website up online constantly 24 seven and then boom your hard drive goes out and you lose everything. You will be personally responsible to go out to the store. Purchase a new hard drive and input into the computer and then everything back up yourself.

Depending on your skills though, it can be preferable. Say you wanted to be a server technician, that could be a good pre-job experience.

 

[David]

Reason why its bad idea:

If you plan on using that dedicated server for Web hosting, it may not be a good idea to host from your house. the reason behind this is because you personally will be responsible for any hardware failures. You will also be responsible for the security of the server as well as other things that data centers take care of for you, say if you rent a dedicated server in a data center somewhere you're not the technician that's constantly working on the dedicated server. What if you were doing a web hosting company that you have probably 50 people that relies on you to have their website up online constantly 24 seven and then boom your hard drive goes out and you lose everything. You will be personally responsible to go out to the store. Purchase a new hard drive and input into the computer and then everything back up yourself.

You haven't really provided any bad reasons which will stop me from hosting from home.

You just say we will be "responsible for any hardware failures", which isn't an issue/bad reason if it's just for you, and not for other people. So what if there are hardware failures; you just fix them, like how you would fix any problem around the house, and so it doesn't make it a bad idea. Then you say "security", again, that only really is an issue if it is for others; if there is a security issue, simply fix it yourself, you won't be affecting anyone else if the server is just for you. Then you justify your reasoning with using a web hosting site, which isn't really what he was asking, and you assume that's what its for, so you argue that maintenance would be an issue, but if it's just for yourself, then you won't need 50 people to maintain a personal site.

You haven't provided bad reasons for hosting a dedicated server from home because all your arguments rely on if the hosting is for other people, which isn't suggested in the OP. At the very least, your points do not stop me from considering hosting from home.

 

[Taz]

Yeah, what he said 😀. What if I get a server machine, is that still bad to host it from home?

 

[froggyboy604]

I'm not sure if your ISP will be too happy if you run a high traffic website from home, and you get thousands of visitors per hour. Plus, the upload speeds for consumer level high speed cable and DSL internet service can be very slow even slower then shared hosting in many cases.

I read articles on the internet which said ISP are capping home users, so they can only upload and download about 60 GBs more or less online before ISP complain, or decide to send you an expensive bills for bandwidth overage fees.

If you run a social network, blog, forum, and lose members data, credit card numbers, your reputation might never recover if you never backup their data or you lose their data because of a hacker, or poor server security practices.