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Originally posted by cash69
70% of the people right now could run off a t1 with no problem.. sure hosting companies will alwyase be around.. those that use major bw.. but why would some one using 5 mbps get a hosting company or a shared hosting line when he can just setup his computer and host himself.. some don't know how to do it.. but i think they would learn.. would save few hundred dollars per month
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This is not true.....first of all no one will actually give you a T1
for less than a hosting company could give you. There are a lot
of other costs and things you should consider.....in order to have
a T1 you need a local loop or in plain english a physical line.
You would need to buy a decent router. You need to hook your
end of the T1 to an upstream provider. You would have to get
peering agreements with other providers to assure that people
from other networks can access your network segment in a
decent way. You would need to monitor and babysit your own
servers 24/7/365
And these are just a few of the things that you have overlooked.
Now do you really think you can do this all by yourself cheaper
then getting a hosting deal? I'm sure you can't. Hosting providers
buy in bulk.....or more often house in datacenters where they just
rent floorspace. Datacenters have huge networks and many
different networks under the same roof. So routing between
these networks can occur over LAN connections which is a lot
cheaper than interconnection over real local loops using fiber
connections. I can sum up 100's of other tasks where they share
costs....also you pay for BW in both ways. Hosting providers resell
there symetric BW as they hardly use this....they sell it to Dialup
providers or Satelite providers doing that from your home is next
to impossible as the volume is way to small to be interesting.
What about a decent airco cooled server room and sufficient
backup power. The list is goes on and on why you are better off
and certainly cheaper than doing all this yourself.
DynaMite
