Hosting on your own computer....

[Kusoyaro]

I ran a public AMV FTP server off my computer for 3 years while I was in college on a T1. You have to be really careful...luckily, my school never complained about the bandwidth, but I had to heavily limit the users because my computer couldn't handle it, and at the time, my system was pretty robust. If I turned off server limits, my computer would invariably crash within an hour from idiots hammering me. I also had to turn it off occasionally when running system-intensive programs, as my computer tended to be sluggish when I had 10 or 20 users downloading on T1's!

And just FYI, I used Serv-U, which is very simple and no-frills...never had any problems with it.

[Bushido Philosopher]

if you only have one person downloading your vid, the fastest that person can get is 20Kbs

so meaning that one person will only be able to download at a time at 20KB/sec max...??? [/quote]

[FurryCurry]

if you only have one person downloading your vid, the fastest that person can get is 20Kbs

so meaning that one person will only be able to download at a time at 20KB/sec max...???

Yes, that's pretty much it. maybe a little cloase to 30k, depending, but yeah, 1 @ 20-27K, 2 @ 10-14k, etc, and you will barely be able to use your connection, as the constant leeching will slow down your browsing & such quite a lot.

It may also be against the rules of your ISP, and get you a nasty phone call to your house, with a threat to shut off your service, or worse.

Sorry for such bad news.