What hardware would i need to have my own domain hoster?
I only want to host my own, but what do i need. Just a discussion topic really. I am talking owing own service i.e. having your own T1.
I only want to host my own, but what do i need. Just a discussion topic really. I am talking owing own service i.e. having your own T1.
Justin S posted this at 13:24 — 21st October 2000.
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Well, first off, I'd suggest you just co-location with a company. It's much cheaper then getting your own T1 line or something. Then you need a server. As I said, you can co-locate with a company, which means you provide the server, and they provide the bandwidth, or you could just get a dedicate server with a company, which means they provide both the server and bandwidth. Either way, I'd recommend the following specs on a computer used to host your site(s)...
- At least 500MHz P2/P3
- At least 128MB Ram
- Any HD size you need
- Anything else, etc...
That would be good for a few good trafficed sites...
Justin Stayton - [email] [icq]
Gil posted this at 23:28 — 25th October 2000.
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Checkout rackspace.com. They seem to be really popular when it comes to colocation and dedicated hosting. I'm considering getting a server with them pretty soon...
Gil Hildebrand, Jr.
Internet Consultant
New Orleans, LA
Justin S posted this at 23:33 — 25th October 2000.
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I second that suggestion. Rackspace is used by many large sites (IE: [url]http://www.sitepoint.com)[/url] and has proven that they're worthy...
Adam! posted this at 19:48 — 29th October 2000.
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Take a look at:
http://www.thewhir.com/articles/
You'll find a few articles about hosting yourself. Generally, you need a T1 line and a decent machine. I mean, you can try hosting off DSL or cable, but.. hmmm..
Adam
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anti posted this at 17:41 — 7th November 2000.
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Well,
depending on what you host you can get away with an ISDN-line (64K/56K) and a small box (486-133, 64MB ram).
For a static site (dynamic content<10%) and not to many downloads that is no problem.
1 Million hits with 100K each spread over 24hours are absolutly no problem with this config.
Can you tell us what kind of site you want to host ?
anti
Celstk855 posted this at 05:24 — 19th November 2000.
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What if I wanted to serve streaming video...or at the least progressive download videos in all three majors..QT, Real and WM??
I presume that would exceed the 100K eg: proposed above...
My thinking towards owner host is the idea of uploading 2GB of files for serving each month...via ftp that's out there isnt it???
Of course a T1 would probably not be sufficient either if I had 20 simultaneous viewers as "on-demand".
Cel
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