Serving web pages on DSL

Thumbs up, or thumbs down?

[msr986]

A phone provider wants to sell me an unrestricted DSL.

I'm considering seting up a server on it.

Will It be fast enough?

-Marty

[john316]

I've seen sites served over a 56k connection, DSL is fast enough,

[sun818]

Your question is somewhat broad. What type of server do you plan on running? What type of send and receive speeds are they offering? Is it a dynamic or static IP? If the price is only $40-$50 a month, you will have issues with DSL line availability.

[txbakers]

A standard DSL is only 128 upload. Not very fast when you are competing with OC3 and OC12 out there. Unless you just want to learn how, you'll need the maximum DSL - 768 upload. That costs more than the basics.

Even with that, it's still a shared line, subject to network traffic. The next step, however, is a fractional T1 and you'll pay a goodly sum for that.

But for learning how to administer and run a web server, go for it.
Don't expect people to come flocking to you for hosting though.....

[msr986]

>What type of server do you plan on running?

I will run whatever I need to. However, if the DSL is not good enough, the best server in the world won't be good enough!

>What type of send and receive speeds are they offering?

640k up-stream, 3.0M down-stream
mulitiple dedicated IP's

>Even with that, it's still a shared line, subject to network traffic.

Huh? Shared where? Can you clarify?

The sserver will be used for ecommerce, currently about 1.5K unique hits per day.

[korkus2000]

I had to run a big web app from dsl. It can work you just have to monitor usage pretty heavily. You must also watch your ISP from down grading your bandwidth. I have heard from many people and myself included about ISP changing your uptime from 512 or high down to 256 or even 128. You need to make sure that your are gauranteed that upload. If not you will be switch at the worst time.