(can we get free webhosting from you?)
you sure about that?
Another, cheaper option would be to run squid as a reverse proxy on a cheap VPS. They don't usually have much memory, or space, but if all it's doing is acting as a reverse proxy to your home connection and your VPS is on a fat pipe you can have a 100mbit synchronous connection hosting your stuff for like 10 bucks a month.
If the load becomes too high, or you're worried about scalability there is always the round robin DNS, and just buying more VPS accounts.
Then there is the even cheaper way:
http://www.evilgreenmonkey.com/blog/micro-site-seo-hosting.html Though to really work well, you'd need to implement real caching or risk overwhelming your home connection. With this solution you can host thousands of sites for free, or for a few dollars a month.
that micro site thing is a cool idea. very frugal, i like it.
All good suggestions, IMO, but for my money I have to factor in complexity as part of the price - I've found over the last great many years that ponying up for reasonable service makes my brain free to do really creative stuff... if I'm fighting with (something) that just isn't working right, then I don't get to what I really want/need to be doing.
So I purchased my first few machines and put them in a rack about 8 years ago and I'll never go back. Given our business, regardless of the color of your hat, it's almost like owning a hammer if you are a contractor rather than borrowing one every time you need to use it - it's just part of doing things the right way.
i found a good host in my city (iweb), their colocation center is even on this nice little island (Nun's Island) where i used to work as a programmer.
i will probably get a dedicated for now and maybe go for colocation later.
the whole connection thing was something i hadn't thought out.
A coathanger is often the right tool for what I do...
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