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| Posted by ufo56, 10-08-2011, 10:47 AM |
| Hi
I want to start my own hosting company. But i have many many questions about it.
How build up working enviroment ? I know about linux quite much but how things work in webhosting servers, some load balancers or proxys or what ?
Plan to use is DirectAdmin i hope so.
Ok example. I have one server, everything is nice. But when it's full and i add one machine more and so on everytime when one is full . But how i add that, i must make some cluster system ? Or what servers structure i must have to be succesfully hosting company ?
I cant explain very well what i think but i hope everyone is get my point.
How is more effective? Cluster ? Cloud ? Grid ? What software use ?
In every server is apache,mysql,mail ? Or how is better ? How connect they "one".
Any more suggestions are very welcomed or any help.
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| Posted by activelobby4u, 10-09-2011, 12:42 AM |
| It all depends on your budget. How much are you planning to invest initially ?
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-09-2011, 02:07 AM |
| For start 2 servers. Or i should buy more ?
If someone explain more , maybe i buy more.
3000$ - 4000$
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-09-2011, 07:51 AM |
| I really appreciate any help or suggestion
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| Posted by whocky, 10-09-2011, 12:57 PM |
| Hi ufo56
I dont mean to put you down or anything but if you are asking questions already on how to run a web hosting company i strongly suggest you dont start one.
Its no easy, and if you know nothing now, then you are going to run into so many problems in the future its going to give you an headache.
2 cents
Steve
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-09-2011, 03:51 PM |
| I already run little game hosting service 1.5 years. I know its hard but i just ask for suggestions. I cant find on internet ideas how start. I know that there is many things to know. I know many things about that, how everything exactly works, backups and so on.
I just want to know where to start that hosting service. How to build infrastructure, when one server is full to add new server or use some cloud/grid techniques. I hope u understand what i mean.
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| Posted by iPing, 10-09-2011, 03:54 PM |
| What services are you wanting to provide from your servers?
Also do you have these servers at home or in a datacentre?
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-09-2011, 03:57 PM |
| Shared hosting for start only i think. Later VPS.
naturally servers are in data center.
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| Posted by Jutt, 10-09-2011, 04:10 PM |
| Go with Reseller first, and then after VPS!
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-09-2011, 04:13 PM |
| No, definitely no. I like real servers.
Maybe someone talks now real talk
Last edited by ufo56; 10-09-2011 at 04:16 PM.
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| Posted by iPing, 10-09-2011, 04:21 PM |
| For your shared hosting, I don't think you'll need another server unless yours isn't a strong enough server.
You could have databases and mailservers etc hosted remotely, however this is barely needed until you have a larger clientbase.
If not you could setup a server for mail, setup in an optimized way simply for mail serving and you could have a database server, optimized for handling requests (MySQL for example) fast, but as I say this could easily end up costing more money than its worth if the usage is low.
Unless your hosting many file-sharing websites etc, you'll be able to host plenty of clients, so your budget is best to be spent on licenses and marketing.
Last edited by iPing; 10-09-2011 at 04:28 PM.
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-09-2011, 04:26 PM |
| iPing thank u for answering. One good and helpful post.
Waiting for some more ideas, i really appreciate this.
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| Posted by caisc, 10-10-2011, 03:24 PM |
| Buy a managed Server and you focus on Promoting your hosting company/services.
If you plan to buy 2 servers, then buy 1 and from the left out money advertise, reach to the clients who need your services. Once you get into profit you will have enough experience to carry on.
This way you can get breakthrough and get in profit in less than 3-5 months.
All i wud suggest is focus on advertising and not on server management while starting up
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-10-2011, 05:32 PM |
| caisc than u very much
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-10-2011, 05:47 PM |
| I want to ask that what raid level (hardware raid ofcourse) and disks are good to webservers.
Raid1 with backup to another location ?
I dont have any clue what I/O is needed.
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| Posted by caisc, 10-11-2011, 05:21 AM |
| With any good service provider if you get a managed server they will offer RAID-10 setup with daily offline backup, i wud also suggest the same. If you will offer gud services then only you can grow, else this is a saturated market now.
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-11-2011, 05:42 AM |
| Thank u again caisc.
But what drives are good ? Sata is probably to slow? SAS or SCSI ?
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| Posted by caisc, 10-11-2011, 05:56 AM |
| ufo56 you dont need to go in such details, as it is decided by the data center employees that what is best with which server configuration, they offer you servers with tested configuration which is tuned to give maximum performance.
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| Posted by 2gbhosting, 10-11-2011, 05:59 AM |
| Hi,
You can start with one dedicated server and any good hosting control panel,if you are planing to take linux server i suggest you to take the whm/Cpanel,it will solve your all problems.
Please take managed server,so that server provider will take care of all your server and contorl panel related problems.
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-11-2011, 09:19 AM |
| One question more. What i must to to sell domains ? yes i know that i must have dns servers and stuff but where i can register to sell domains. ICANN ?
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| Posted by MarkZ, 10-11-2011, 11:15 AM |
| You can register with a registrar provider service e.g. OpenSRS as a reseller of domains or you can go direct but that requires additional stuff.
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| Posted by Shayan|Evolucix, 10-14-2011, 12:04 AM |
| It's best to start off reselling from a direct registrar. eNom namely.
In any case, as far as your hard disk questions go - that's actually a highly relevant question despite what others may say.
We run RAID10 SAS disks and we get some very good I/O. Last time we benchmarked, we were hitting a solid 300 mb/s easy. You basically want to design your system with the fewest bottlenecks possible. SAS drives are expensive (relatively), but well worth it IMO.
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| Posted by ufo56, 10-14-2011, 06:48 AM |
| Yes SAS drives are in that server.
Thank u for help
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