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Originally Posted by sunnysweeney
my old host was ipower. and i want to control everything. it saves me money  . |
Best of luck!
I dont pursue this for the following reasons i'd learned when working for a professional gaming host:
A. Almost ALL home internet connections are not adequate to run servers as its all about UPLOAD speed, not the amazing download speed todays ISPs offer.
Fact: DSL connections are poor server connections, as the type of DSL offered for home connections is not designed for server capacity (and im talking protocol such as ADSL, not bandwidth.. the A stands for AINT GOOD FOR SERVERS).
B. Most home internet providers have a policy against running servers.
C. Dynamic IP, cannot realistically point a domain to it without some special spastic redirect service.
D. Bandwidth pulls and DDOS attacks on the hosted site can diminish gaming capacity on the connection if not destroy it.
E. Most people try it, and are disappointed at how it works, and want some magic software/configuration to solve it, when the way to solve it is to dig a trench to your home for a REAL T1 (not a dsl t1).