because hosting a site at home is not feasible unless you have the good internet speed, skills and time.

for the internet speed, unless you can get yourself a BIZ 5 or above(VIP5 is kinda sluggish sometimes), then it "should" be okay(considering that your user are mostly malaysian or nearby malaysia). for the hardware part, I would say that most of our hardware would be more than enough(even with those pentium 3 or 4 computer still ok one, but of course if you have a dual core proc or better and higher ram, the better it would be)

for security maintenance part, if you don't have the skills, then better hire one for the job........ otherwise later you will

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Added on June 30, 2012, 7:10 pmxampp is kinda lol you know. in security part.

This post has been edited by wcypierre: Jun 30 2012, 07:10 PM

I just manage to setup my own server at home to host my web site. i never plan to do this before, but after few years hosting with those hosting provider, bore with the service given if compare with the price.

If your traffic is very low, that's no point for you to host your server at home, u can get cheap hosting start from RM 80 per year, but after your traffic grown and hit the limit of the hosting, your account will be suspended.

I did upgraded my package to VPS (Virtual private server) but yet with the expensive fees, but very low spec of hosting. I pay around RM 1.5k per years for 100MBz CPU, 512MB of ram, 52kbps speed.

After about 9months hosting at this VPS, many problem occur and finally i decide to move it back to my home.

and how is it? whats your internet speed btw?

at the initial time when I move the web site back home, there are a lot of problem because this is my first time that setup a server to host the wordpress. But after few weeks of tuning and learning, it should be fine.

1 problem that I having now is becaue my rounter Dlink D-615 don't provide the function of DNS loopback, so I need to edit my hosts file to hardcode the domain name to be resolve using the local LAN IP.

I'm using unifi VIP 5 dynamic IP.

Can you help test out the speed and please do give some comment or suggestion.

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2411512

Thanks

This post has been edited by david_cheong2002: Jul 2 2012, 04:57 PM

it might fare well(my internet speed kinda slow for now so can't comment much), provided that you didn't online at your home though . But vip5's speed is not really consistent, I would suggest getting yourself a BIZ10 instead(or better) since the BIZ package is really faster than the VIP package(can apply for static ip so there will be less hassle on setups).

hehe, understand that BIZ plan always better than VIP package. but my problem is min setup cost. Even my "server" is actually an old PC with win 7 ultimate with IIS 7 installed.

BIZ 10 cost about RM 599, is far far away from my small small budget, will only decide to change if my traffic grow up

well, depends on you though. but I did noticed that you had quite some js and css file so merging them up would kinda help though

Do you have any idea or tools that can help in this? is that w3 total cache will help? or i need to manually edit the script in order to do that?