I'm about to move (for the 7th time in the last 10 years, and the last time for the next 10), and so I'm going to move TBRW off its current rather unwieldly home (spread over the 7 free 30 Meg accounts granted to me by my current ISP).
TBRW is now running at about 200 meg, and I assume I should provision for at least 1 gig for future growth. What's the best thing to do? Rent unfree space from my new ISP? Use a national service? What are the options and issues?
You might want to look into Hurricane Electric
http://www.he.net/
As of five years ago or so they were an economical option for modest sites.
is there a way to run a home pc as a web server for you? buying a cheap computer with space enough may be a cheaper option...not sure how it is done but i run an ftp server for over 250 gigs and i figure that it could be done to host a web site too. they would just use ur IP as the address right? there are many sites that give free dns pointers. of course the computer would have to have constant internet access and be always on...
You run a home server as a Web PC and sooner or later your ISP, if it has any brains, is going to wonder why one user is using 1000 times as much bandwidth as anybody else. I think that's going to be a short term solution only.
I use pair.net in Pittsburg. Good service. Cheap Rates. Good interconnectivity.
Or I could host it...