Self Web hosting help (Advice about scale and how to) and cost.?

Question

Hello,

I am a web designer of sorts and I like to create websites for my self and others. I want to start hosting my websites and my clients websites on my server (so that I can offer more support my clients are not tech savvy and need something fully managed plan). I am an optimist and hope one of my many websites can get high traffic. My websites are designed using php, I am familiar with Apache and Mysql and have had some experience with a virtual dedicated server before. I would like to know the cost of running these such websites and the cost for hardware. I want to run a web server and an a separate sql server. I was also thinking of starting with a used prolient or something along those lines maybe U1 or U2. Any suggestions will be appreciated and welcome. As I said before I am an optimist and want something that is scalable reliable and fast(and cheap too)I plan to run something along the lines of 400 single page websites(could be more with time) and 2-3 more complex with search options and data bases ( the works) with a good UI. I know I am asking for a lot but hope you guys and gals can help me out.

Thanks for your help in advance

Answer 1

Having you own servers might be great, but boy you'd surely be paying for the internet usage (a lot more than any normal plan advertised). The other problem is when having all of your servers in one place at one time (at your house), that means if something were to happen (like the internet or electricity goes down in your area for some reason) that means every single site you have goes down.



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Answer 2

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Answer 3

the problem you will have is your ISP. upload speeds and bandwidth are not that great on standard accounts. hosting 400 sites on a home server on a residential internet connection would garuntee terrible service should a few of the site become popular.

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Answer 6

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