hosting own website and storing files on faster server,,

[turbodog]

maybe that does not make sense yet, but I'm hosting a website on our own little server connected via DSL. I all ready knew that the upload would be slow, and I'm ok with that considering the savings. the website uses a flash intro. with our DSL account you are given 10MB storage on verizon.net and even a webpage. can I store photo's adn script on the verizon (fast) website and insert code that will first direct the downloading of the object from the fast site and iff that fails within a set amount of time, redirect to my slower server?

I do not want to put the entire website on the verizon server b/c it defeats my first objective of hosting our own website.

thanks,
P

[ScaryBinary]

Maybe I'm missing something....wouldn't your plan require you to have duplicate photos (i.e., every photo would have to be on your server plus Verizon's), since you want to attempt to serve from Verizon's site first?

If you take this route, I'd also think that if Verizon's server was hosed, you couldn't redirect to your personal server anyway.

Another problem is that you'd probably have to use some server-side scripting to accomplish what you want, but I doubt you'd get that from Verizon unless you're paying for a commercial/business site ( = $$$).

...But I'm not real smart on all this networking stuff yet. I'm in the process of building my first webserver myself...:cool:...so maybe someone else can chime in here and offer some advice.

[turbodog]

is it possible to write a script that would reside on my office computer -when the request comes in for a webpage it would check to see if the verizon website it operational, if so then the user would download the pictures from verizon's website?