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How hard is it to run a server at your house?

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tablatronix:
I would find a host that allows you to park domains with a custom page. Or just pay a $5/m shared hosting and direct all dns records to it..

If you do not pay for a business isp and or static ip, your isp could shut you down or block you, and the port scanners and bots will relentlessly attack you.

yada:

--- Quote from: tablatronix on May 27, 2017, 05:35:58 pm ---I would find a host that allows you to park domains with a custom page. Or just pay a $5/m shared hosting and direct all dns records to it..

If you do not pay for a business isp and or static ip, your isp could shut you down or block you, and the port scanners and bots will relentlessly attack you.

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Domain sales as I see it are a volume business. That means each one needs to be as cheap as possible. I'm also banking on the fact that one in a thousand might be worth several hundred thousand. I missed registering a site that sold for $1,000,000USD by about an hour. Domains are like land, once its all bought up it will go up in value. There was a useless homestead in califonia that was sold for almost nothing, now called silicon valley. It can get expensive when you have 100+ domains that you are just sitting on, then they try to sell you all this other stuff like privacy, when in actuality you should never give your real details out to whois. Ever since I missed my million dollar opportunity I have been hooked on buying domains.   

tablatronix:
Thousands of domains, sounds like alot of overhead to keep them registered and private whois.

You can get away with it, I used to run my own email,ftp,httpd server on comcast for years until they eventually sent me a letter. Worked pretty well. But this was years ago, ISPs are pretty much a bunch of aholes nowadays.

Domain squatting sounds so 90s, but With all these new tlds there seems to be a renaissance.

yada:

--- Quote from: tablatronix on May 28, 2017, 04:10:14 pm ---Thousands of domains, sounds like alot of overhead to keep them registered and private whois.

You can get away with it, I used to run my own email,ftp,httpd server on comcast for years until they eventually sent me a letter. Worked pretty well. But this was years ago, ISPs are pretty much a bunch of aholes nowadays.

Domain squatting sounds so 90s, but With all these new tlds there seems to be a renaissance.

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if you are a brick and motor business you want that yourbusinessname.com. Look how many sites are xyzUSA.com or XYZ.biz. .biz? That's so unprofessional.

Red Squirrel:

--- Quote from: yada on May 26, 2017, 09:49:59 pm ---
How much did that set up cost and whats your monthly internet bill/plan?

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I'd hate to even know.  :-DD  Most of it started off as one box, then two, then a rack, then more boxes, then more wires etc...   probably like 10-15k of stuff easily in there.  The file server alone (the one with 24 drive bays) was about 3-4k to build then add the drives.  (most were added over time as required,I still have some empty slots)

Since my ISP does not allow web servers, the connection is not really relevant with this setup as it's not really serving anything to the outside other than a game server (which is allowed), but I pay around $160/mo or so for my internet.  It's 50/30 which is super good for here.  They rolled out fibre here a few years back and I was lucky enough to be able to get it.  Only overhead cable plant  areas got it.   I would love if my ISP actually did allow web servers as I'd host all of it here too.  Would just need to invest in more batteries but that's not really a big deal as it's a one time cost vs the cost of leasing an online web server.

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