shortbus1662 - 6:28 pm on Apr 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

okay, let me ask you guys something.

I have a Dell 2650 Dual 2.6G processors, 5 36G hard drives, 1.5G of Ram, RAID, etc., etc., which I thought I needed to have to host all my own sites on.

I wanted the big daddy. I colocated it and it ended up costing me at minimum 300 a month, sometimes up to 700. I was getting jobbed.

Now, I'm paying 130 a month for all my sites.

Anyway, I have this big daddy server sitting in my dining room, collecting dust. Would it be possible for me to host four new websites from home using this server?

The problem I will obviously have is connection speed. I'm using SBC Yahoo DSL right now and I can up the bandwidth both ways for 20 bucks a month or so...

Would a visitor to that page see a page that loads at an acceptable rate? Say a 10kb page? Let's say I'm getting 800 unique visitors a day to the server who view 3 pages per person.

What else can I do with this server aside from selling it on Ebay and hoping to get back what I owe.

(I didn't know what I was getting into when I bought it 2 years ago. I was and still am basically, a newb)