2 simple question

[inusrat]

I have 4 websites on my machine. Which are not bussy at all. Technically I am not suppose to have website acording to my ISP as i have a resident account, not business. What are the chances ISP finding out about it, Is it true some ISP run a test on their customers on regular bases to see who has website.

Secondly the speed my site gets downloaded on the client side, How much of that speed depends on my connnection speeed (my download and upload speed)?

thanks

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[manarth]

"Technically I am not suppose to have website acording to my ISP as i have a resident account"

I'd double check your contract - I have a residential account with my (cable) ISP, and they're happy for me to do what I want with it. Plenty of gamers running game servers will use up far more bandwidth than a quiet web site! Their protection is the bandwidth limit: my upload limit is 128 kbps.

The slowest link is likely to be your upload speed (your download speed is almost irrelevant). If someone hits your web site, the speed they get will be your upload speed, divided by the number of people hitting the site at the same time, minus some latency.

As for your ISP finding out - if it's against their rules, then they probably are monitoring it. They don't need to run any tests against your machine, they can simply watch the requests going through their network. It's so easy for them to do - well, you get the idea!

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[Newposter]

I've been running web server, email server and FTP server at home for 2 years. Three times my ISP has tested (slammed) the mail server to check for an open relay. None found, so they leave me alone. But they do monitor.

Funny thing is, they now allow webcams, which eat up lots of bandwidth. But they ban home web servers, want to charge for professional web serving, and I can't afford $1500 a month for one web site that gets a few hundred hits.

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