What is required to set up own hosting?
What is required to set up own hosting of other people's sites? What equipment is needed? etc.? cost?
I want to be able to design webpages for customers and host them myself. I would not be providing this service to anyone other than my own customers.
(Hope I posted this in right section.)
[This message has been edited by Cactus (edited 13 May 2000).]
Anonymous posted this at 17:49 — 13th May 2000.
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Your in right section.. Basically you’ve got four options:
1) Setup an in-house server. This is not cheap and will require that you buy a server (a good one can start at $2000) and a high-speed connection (can range in price, usually starting at around $800 a month plus bandwidth). I would not suggest this option.
2) Purchase/lease a dedicated server through a web hosting company. This will usually range from $250 to $800 a month. A good dedicated server can host 100 accounts. You’re responsible for all technical support and administration.
3) Signup as a reseller for a web hosting company. Basically you’ll purchase virtual server space for a discount rate. You can then resell the space to your clients at whatever price you want. You’re responsible for technical support and billing.
4) Become an affiliate with a web hosting company and try to make a few dollars of recommending your clients. You may not make as much, but if your not willing or ready to provide technical support this may be a good starter option.
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cannon7 posted this at 14:29 — 14th June 2000.
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Check out http://www.resellermatrix.net, they should be able to help you. Later.
chicken posted this at 01:50 — 15th June 2000.
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Why go there cannon7 when you could get the same thing for MUCH less at superior-host.com?
jimbo posted this at 06:32 — 17th June 2000.
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From personal experience, it is much easier (and less expensive) to set up your own server and host them yourself.
I just setup the web server for my employer last week; it is an old P-166, with 256MB of RAM. It's got the most recent version of RHL on it, with Apache, yadda, yadda. The only connection we had set up was an SDSL line, which averaged about 550kbs up and down stream. The box I built in house from spare parts, and cost about $500. The SDSL line is a little pricey, about $300/mo. The only thing there is that you have to make sure you are close enough to the CO to get the highest speeds.
There are positives and negatives to this. If the sites are extremely resource intensive, like they use a lot of perl, mysql, etc., and they are all have moderate to heavy traffic, you may run into problems. If they are just all static HTML sites, you can get away with a lot more.
Basically, it depends on the sites you'll be running. If they are bigger sites, I'd go for a dedicated box at dn or rackspace.
Reselling works well, too
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Anonymous posted this at 07:06 — 17th June 2000.
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Now that high spend connections are available for under a thousand dollars a month (T1) in house is a lot more feasible.
Two of my clients are running servers in house on xDSL. One is a Sun Solaris box the others running good old Red Hat. Both work well and usually have a better ping rate then a lot of my other clients on virtual servers.
Only if we had DSL here
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