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Ah... that's probably because I got it wrong. I went back to check their website and it appears they offer 1, 2, 4 and 8 Mbit download and 512 and 768 kbps upload options. Of course, the price is *from* £35. It requires some form filling to discover the other costs and as the service isn't available to me anyway, I'll leave that investigation to someone else.

After using a modem, I think I have been spoilt by DSL download speeds, so I suppose I am being unfairly cautious about the comparitively low upload rate. I believe many small ISPs would host multiple sites on a T1 leased line. 512kbps is about a third of that speed?, so for one website it begins to sound more feasible. Unless I've got that wrong too (it's been that kind of a day!).

The Easynet site is at: http://www.easynet.net

Check out RazorBlue. They charge £19.99 for a 512k connection with no port blocks, so you can host from home. PLUS that included 100Mb of hosting (php 4 or 5, mysql, blah blah).

For another £1.99 per month this storage space can be upgraded to 500Mb.

I've just switched over to them, you can check my website out at http://www.cheshair.com

I've been hosting from home for about 2 years now, I've decived that although it's convenient, I'd like my computer back! The fact that I can get hosting free with my ADSL line means that as soon as my domain name transfer goes through, the site will no longer be hosted at home.

At the moment, the site is hosted on a 2.4Ghz P4, 1Gb of RAM. It is NOT dedicated, and runs P2P software, and much more on my 512/256 line. I'm using TSW software with Php4 as it includes a web panel for changing hosting settings online. This means I can restart the http server from outsite the house if WF-Sections causes Apache to crash.