Topic: hosting your own website???

[Fox_Of_The_Wind]

At one time I did know a few people on the forum hosted there own website. Are you all still doing it? or did you give up the self hosting?

If you are hosting your own. What are you using?

[weatherdoc]

Yup - I run my website (https://wxdoc.info) from my Synology NAS.

[Aardvark]

I used to have one : dsmweather.org  .   and I had all the goodies plus soil moisture , 4 depths. anyway I put a tracker on and it was mostly russian and chinese bots, so I pulled the plug .   As far as the script,   the author of that was being difficult when I had a question so that was the second reason.    Now I have the weatherlink site https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/6f3b4abce7de4311a3210cd93d325a0c/summary

that fulfills my desire. the wife insisted the soil moisture station to go away, so I pulled the sensors and the station resides in the garden shed .  I do send data to APRS, Weatherunderground, globe.gov ;Weathercloud Network and wpw cwop.  so I do share it and of course the conditions the wife wants to know.

I had Hostmonster as the provider and they were very helpful and available 24/7 .

[Forever]

I have been hosting my site on my Windows server for the last 16 years.

[Fox_Of_The_Wind]

Thank you all for the info on your setups!

I have been hosting my site on my Windows server for the last 16 years.

So would that be windows server OS? Nice!!

Yup - I run my website (https://wxdoc.info) from my Synology NAS.

I like your site....yours is the reason why I posted this. I am thinking of getting a Synology NAS and doing the same!

I used to have one : dsmweather.org  .   and I had all the goodies plus soil moisture , 4 depths. anyway I put a tracker on and it was mostly russian and chinese bots, so I pulled the plug .   As far as the script,   the author of that was being difficult when I had a question so that was the second reason.    Now I have the weatherlink site https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/6f3b4abce7de4311a3210cd93d325a0c/summary

that fulfills my desire. the wife insisted the soil moisture station to go away, so I pulled the sensors and the station resides in the garden shed .  I do send data to APRS, Weatherunderground, globe.gov ;Weathercloud Network and wpw cwop.  so I do share it and of course the conditions the wife wants to know.

I had Hostmonster as the provider and they were very helpful and available 24/7 .

What did your system use when it was online? I am not married but I do know you better keep the wife happy

[weatherdoc]

I like your site....yours is the reason why I posted this. I am thinking of getting a Synology NAS and doing the same!

I like using my Synology NAS because it makes moving files around easy and fast within my home network across several PCs to the NAS. It's a large upfront cost and will take several years for a payback on the investment but I also use the NAS for backing up PC's, storing and streaming video and audio files, etc. I had used a service for years but ftp issues led me to use my NAS, which I had already purchased as a backup device. Once I realized I could host my site, I purchased a new, faster NAS that is now going on 3 years old. If you go this route, just be sure to follow all the security protocols that Synology provides.

[Fox_Of_The_Wind]

I like your site....yours is the reason why I posted this. I am thinking of getting a Synology NAS and doing the same!

I like using my Synology NAS because it makes moving files around easy and fast within my home network across several PCs to the NAS. It's a large upfront cost and will take several years for a payback on the investment but I also use the NAS for backing up PC's, storing and streaming video and audio files, etc. I had used a service for years but ftp issues led me to use my NAS, which I had already purchased as a backup device. Once I realized I could host my site, I purchased a new, faster NAS that is now going on 3 years old. If you go this route, just be sure to follow all the security protocols that Synology provides.

I been hosting off of a windows system. But I been thinking of jumping on the Synology party. Might watch ebay for good deals. Thanks for the info!

[weatherdoc]

If you get one on eBay, make sure it's at least a 2-bay (2 drive) version with expandable memory to 6GB. Anything less will be too slow to act as a reasonable web server. The DS220+ would be a good choice.