In message . li, at
21:45:04 on Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Tom Anderson
remarked:
It's funny, you can get a range of web applications, some really very
complicated, for free these days, but raw webspace is hard to come
across. I don't think many people want it.

I have as much raw webspace as I want. It's simply a server on the end
of my ADSL line. If I use up the current 100GB+ all I have to do is buy
a larger hard drive.

As my ISP provides reverse-DNS on my connection (I think they all
should, but perhaps they all don't) it's not even necessary to register
and maintain a domain name (maybe £5 a year) although that does allow
you to change connectivity providers without breaking all the links.

Now that a typical upstream bandwidth is 512K (once upon a time
sufficient to run a whole ISP with thousands of websites), the sort of
sites we are talking about can easily be hosted at home.

ps Some ISPs still claim to ban hosting of servers, but this makes
little sense any more, especially on asymmetrical connections.
--
Roland Perry