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timmmay

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#2550560 27-Aug-2020 10:57

If you host at home on a spare PC, if that PC is compromised your whole network could be compromised. If your main PC isn't hardened it might be wiped, get viruses, etc, as home PCs are often not well protected.

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#2550561 27-Aug-2020 10:58

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Ok Lets try and get this sorted ... How about I arrange 3 months of free hosting for SMF or similar. Ill get it installed and setup with all the default themes etc ?

I guess what you really need todo is confirm if the community your part of wants to move away from FB ??

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#2550633 27-Aug-2020 11:57

to answer your question, yes its easy and possible to host this yourself from a spare pc at home but you are opening yourself up to a can of worms, there's more overhead then you may think in maintaining it, particularly around security.. there a websites on the online that are constantly scanning the net for computers that have exposed themselves to the internet, if you were unlucky enough to be a target as a result of one of these scan you'll open yourself up to a world of headache.. last thing you would want is to expose all your members details.. and have your home network hi-jacked

it may sound to you like you're getting a lot of pessimistic answers here but it's all been really good advice, take it for what its worth..

If you choose to ignore the advice and want to push forward with hosting it yourself you'll at a minimum seriously want to consider buying(will be a lot more than purchasing hosting) or setting up an open source firewall (free but will cost you a lot in time setting up and learning what you need to do to set it up right)

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#2550634 27-Aug-2020 11:58

sampler:

@Kermets

Ok Lets try and get this sorted ... How about I arrange 3 months of free hosting for SMF or similar. Ill get it installed and setup with all the default themes etc ?

I guess what you really need todo is confirm if the community your part of wants to move away from FB ??

wow what an offer, nice one @sampler

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#2550653 27-Aug-2020 12:31

It may also be against your ISP's terms to run a server on your home connection.

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#2550669 27-Aug-2020 13:11

MurrayM:

It may also be against your ISP's terms to run a server on your home connection.

LOL haven't seen that term be used EVER. ;)

(serial server at home user over multiple ISPs)

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#2550687 27-Aug-2020 13:37

@timmmay yes i see the problem....thanks

@sampler   thats very kind of you....i dont expect the FB group to jump across but it would be somewhere where
           images/documents etc could be stored and more important searched for later on,
           Would you look at this as a test case to see if it works? give me a idea on ongoing hosting costs
           after the 3 months as if i cant get support if maybe fruitless

my domain is with crazydomains

@dt no i agree with you all but I needed to exhaust all my questions....

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#2550797 27-Aug-2020 17:08

Kermets:

my domain is with crazydomains

Why don't you just host it on some cheap shared hosting?

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#2551050 28-Aug-2020 07:06

Kermets: @sampler   thats very kind of you....i dont expect the FB group to jump across but it would be somewhere where
           images/documents etc could be stored and more important searched for later on,
           Would you look at this as a test case to see if it works? give me a idea on ongoing hosting costs
           after the 3 months as if i cant get support if maybe fruitless

my domain is with crazydomains

Happy to move forward to see if your vision for the community your part has the same concerns etc

Assuming 10 gig of storage and hosted here in nz the monthly cost would be about $9 per month.

Setup time etc im happy to just put out there as good will.

Pm me your contact details etc and we can discuss when it suits. As you have the domain im sure we could nail it today.

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#2551051 28-Aug-2020 07:09

Oh and all the usual terms and conditions apply.. Including no English truck porn or similar ;-D

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#2551143 28-Aug-2020 09:58

xpd:

MurrayM:

It may also be against your ISP's terms to run a server on your home connection.

LOL haven't seen that term be used EVER. ;)

(serial server at home user over multiple ISPs)

It used to be quite common several years (and more) ago. Especially when unlimited data first came out and the ISPs were worried about people using massive amounts of data (1990's?).

There also used to be (not sure if it's still a thing) rules about using a residential connection for business purposes. In theory you weren't allowed to use a residential connection if you were running a small business from home (although this usually wasn't enforced).

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