Win Web Hosting

1. You will need to find out what your upload and download speeds are from your ISP. If you want to host websites, you have to have a high UPLOAD speed (this is typically 1/10 of the download on a residential package).

2. A residential Internet package typically comes with no uptime guarantees, while website owners DEMAND high uptime from their providers. You will want to move to a business package, and those are much more expensive. Alternatively you can learn how to do some basic routing and at least get a second internet connection from another provider. Not guaranteed still, but better at least.

3. You must have a static IP address. Really, you should have one per website… but if you play around with DNS files you can tell it to use non-standard ports for web traffic. Much easier to use 1 IP address per website though, and probably preferred by the hostees.

4. I hope you also purchased a firewall.