![]() There are way more road blocks and speed bumps involved in rolling your own mail server than there are getting a web server operational. So I say find a good shared host to run your blog, and setup your home server for fun for a few months for the experience.Įmail is a bag of hurt just because all of the garbage, spam and security threats out there. And yes I was a little freaked out because every night I was seeing 80 to 100 failed SSH login attempts from Chinese and Russian IP addresses.įor all the headache, the above did teach me a lot though. My power bill went up $18 per month from the 24/7 run time. I didn't know a lot about DNS which caused me all kinds of grief. I didn't find OS X Server very efficient as a HTTP nor FTP server, my machine had 4GB of ram, which was still decent 5 years ago, but I was having to reboot 2-3 times a week because some process would eat up the available ram slowing everything to a crawl. It seems simple enough, but it turns into death by a thousand cuts. Not a lot of traffic, just 2 - 3 clients uploading or downloading files around 200mb a few times per week.After two months I gave up and bought an unlimited shared hosting plan and renewed my Vimeo Plus account. In theory it seemed a hell of a lot easier than having to do all the up/downloads myself. I worked a video production job on the side, so I thought it would be awesome to setup a home server where clients could upload and download media for their projects. It came with guaranteed 50mbps down 10mbps up bandwidth and none of the port blocking/typical restrictions. It was basically a business class account at residential rates. I used to work for a company that qualified for me to have what was called a Teleworker account from Comcast. I say go for it as a learning experience for a short time and have the fun, but I'll second the above, the fun will wear off quick. I also heard that hosting is dangerous as my Mac will get attacked/hacked? Wouldn't OS X Server include protective app's? And even if the hackers got through, the only damage they could do would be limited to the partition that OS X Server and the website is located on? I wouldn't want my whole network and my entire Mac Pro endangered. If my Mac Pro went to sleep would the blog/website go down? I also think it would be fun to see if I can set up a blog/website and host myself.īut I read I need a static IP address for this to work? If yes, that means all the small businesses for which OS X Server is marketed to, need to buy a static IP address which I heard is expensive. I know it's more reliable (much better uptime if I bought cloud hosting), but at this moment it's just a casual blog. If I installed OS X Server to one of my HDD partitions, does OS X Server come with all the app's for me to host my Wordpress blog? I've already bought a domain name.
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