home servers and wireless router

home servers and wireless router

I have 4 servers at home that I use for hosting several websites, mail, database. Lately traffic has been increased more than double in the last couple weeks from 2K unique visitors to about 4K unique visitors per week (125K hits/week - avg 5-10KB/hit cached ). The internet connection is a 10Mbps/1Mbps. All servers are connected to a home DLink wireless router that works as a firewall. The problem is that sometimes I do have to reboot BOTH, my ISP modem and the wireless router because connection just goes off.

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"Home routers are notoriously flakey and restarting them is a pretty common task. I've had many cheap D-link / Netgear / etc routers and they all lock up often...and eventually just die. The modem from your ISP may be to blame as well...but there's not as much you can do about that.

If you want to stick with home-grade equipment, the Linksys WRT54G is well known for being reliable. I have one myself, and it rarely needs to be restarted.

If you want to step up a notch, look into small-business grade routers like the Linksys RV042, which will run somewhere around $200. I've had one running non stop with constant traffic for over a year I think. Now this unit doesn't have wireless built in, but if you're only using wireless for the client machines in your house, then you could put your existing wireless router behind the RV042."