George_Cooper - 6:48 am on Apr 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

This doesn't mention any costing. It would be good to see why this decision was financially influenced and how you came to your numbers.

You can get dedicated boxes for under US$100/month these days, including 800GB of bandwidth on multiple high speed links and a 2.4ghz processor with 1gb ram. Not to mention a service level agreement, redundant routers/links, firewall and power backup. It even spares you the cost/hassle of hardware failure, as it's their problem as they own the hardware.

Also, hosting from home would severely limit your outbound connection speed as most 'high speed' residential internet connections have relatively low speed 'outbound' speeds. For example 512k ADSL only has 128K outbound which would be fine for a small web sites but probably not anything getting more than 50,000 hits a day.

Anyway, that's just my two cents