Bill. Hosting "some websites" on your home server is one thing. Hosting a forum and a few websites will be entirely different.
At 2Mb/s you might be best hosting a rarely used couple of sites. Never more than a couple of people on it.
The database is easy. for free use MySQL same darn thing as MSs stuff but completely free. Look into OSS. (mysql)
MS has two versions of their SQL software... one is free to use, one is not.. for what you want (more than one DB with same software, I would expect that is not the free version).
Key to open source is protection. You will have to pay attention. Open source loves to tout itself as the key to security. And it is if you pay attention for hte average user, windows is just as secure as linux IMHO. UNIX was known as "the hackers playground."
Much simpler (and if your time is valuable, than also cheaper) is to get a dedicated server, and host all the sites from there.. you can usually get a dedicated server for about 100-200 a month. 100 buck range would probably be enough unless your 4-5 sites are going to be high traffic.
Might just tell them to go with MSoffice live sites.. pretty cheap.. MS's bandwidth and have the option to build your own sites within their app languages.
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Last edited by Neuromancer; 06-27-2010 at 06:28 PM.
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