[CodeToad]

No one uses T-1 lines anymore. We use 1, 10, or 100 Gbps fiber. A T-1 is 1/1000th that of a 1 Gbps fiber.

The basic makeup is you get a building, you stuff it with servers and software, and connect it to the Internet via a backbone company like AT&T or Comcast.

Hosting companies do the same thing but rent you server space. It is expensive. Very expensive. Cost studies show they aren’t worth it in most cases.

Now we are seeing an additional ugly side of hosting: Censorship. Hosting companies want to censor what you put on those servers you rent.

[Chickensoup]

I understand and I am certainly not up to date.

However, how would someplace like FR manage?

Servers at home directly tied to local backbone?

And who says the backbones wont censer?

[farming pharmer]

CodeToad:

Two years ago, I:

1) Got a junk dell box with a pentium D and a 40gb hard drive
2)Loaded Slackware Linux on it, learned Apache and HTML, and hand coded my own web page
3)Purchased a domain name and a dynamic IP address package through DynDNS
4)Hooked up my box to my wide open west cable internet connection and
5) Sweet, now I have an internet page

Question - am I now hosting myself (by definition) or doing something else?