[fpc-other] Your thoughts on cloud based server instances?

[noreply at z505.com]

On 2017-03-10 10:08, Travis Siegel wrote:
> There are dynamic dns services that can solve this problem for you.
> Some of them are even supported directly by some routers, so you might
> want to check your router configuration, and see if it has built-in
> support for any of the dynamic dns services, and use that one, so you
> don't have to do anything at all, just set your dns to point to the
> dynamic dns servers, and the ips will change automatically when your
> ip does.  I've used a couple such services in the past, and they've
> all worked fairly well.  I can't use one now, because somehow, my isp
> blocks incoming traffic to server ports, regardless of what I set them
> to.  <shrug> Might save you a whole lot of work and likely to be
> cheaper than a vpn as well.


But running things from your ISP do you not have speed issues 
(connection speed, especially Upload)?

There was a time where I was going to host my own websites from my home, 
but the ISP upload speeds are pathetic, unless you pay $1000 or more for 
a fast connection every month.

For websites with 10 visitors a day it might suffice... but then if 
those 10 visitors download a 5mb file even, it's super slow for them...

Maybe ISP upload speeds are better in your country, I don't know, but 
IMO upload speeds are still too pathetic and slow for hosing stuff from 
your own router/server setup from home/work.  Unless you have $1000's 
for a fast connection (they used to call them T1? I'm unfamiliar with 
what it's called now).

Some ISP's have business services, but they again are pretty expensive 
and/or geared toward tiny little businesses, from what I researched 
years ago. Not for any website with serious traffic...

Then again if you only have say 5-100 clients and they use your site 
occasionally it could work... but as soon as someone downloads a 100MB 
file on your little home/work router/server setup, the server bogs down?