Thread: Ip Based Hosts And Networking

Although the question begs - why run websites on an adsl line?

Originally Posted by midnightsoftwar

Although the question begs - why run websites on an adsl line?

Especially when you can get one of Fasthosts' unlimited bandwidth servers on a 'data pipe' of 512k!

Just ask your DSL provider to give you more IP addresses. They'll probably be able to allocate 8 or 16 without too much fuss.

Note most providers will charge for extra IP's

Enta are quite cheap on IP addressing mind

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Hi Mike,

What people are kind of saying above is ADSL lines are not guaranteed circuits, no matter how much you pay for them, which makes it dangerous to host websites on ADSL.

Alternatives are Leased Lines to your office, or moving the hosting to a host in a datacentre, much like most of the members of this forum.

If you don't know how to configure a router for routing a subnet rather than a single IP then someone should really be doing that for you. Hosting on ADSL is a false economy IMHO (in *most* circumstances). You would be far better off getting a server with a professional company that has an ethernet connection to the internet (preferably multiple connections) then use the DSL line to shovel data to and from the server. Or even better, hire a consultant to show you how to do it all :-)

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Mike,

One way you could do this cheap if you really want to use ADSL is with one of these http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor3300v.html

It allows you to load balance multiple ADSL lines from different suppliers. We installed one into one of our customers sites recently and it works really well.

You still have the issue that if your local exchange goes down, all ADSL lines will go down, but it makes it a little more bullet proof.

To be honest, give up on the idea of doing anything on DSL unless you've got a real time backup service running from a remote location. ADSL just isn't up to the job.

We have two DSL lines into our office. Both failed Tuesday evening for 17 hours because they're attached to the same DSLAM at the exchange. ie even when you think you're 'safe' things still go wrong.