| www.RickyMills.com Name: Rick Mills Location: Herts, UK Join Date: Sep 2005
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| Lots of people here in the UK host their own sites as we all tend to have fast internet connections (most people on approx 2mbps, others on cable such as myself can get upto 20mbps). I would be very wary. Contact your ISP personally to make sure they allow it. I've seen many people loose their internet for breaking their ISP's TOS.
Also, security is a huge problem when hosting your own sites. Remember, datacenters have thousands of protection methods...many hardware based such as firewalls (not your standard ZoneAlarm stuff....I'm taking $5000+ hardware firewalls).
Just be very careful!
On another note, for Apache, PHP, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin I recommend:
WAMPP or XAMPP for Windows
and MAMP for fellow Mac OS X users
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