Should I Start Hosting From Home
Apr 7, 2009
I've been toying with the idea of hosting from home to reduce overhead. To give you a rundown I have a pretty popular site that hosts videos and a very very large forum. The company I rent my server from now I'm starting to think is sort of a ripoff.
Current Specs
2x 2.0 dual core xeon (woodcrest)
4gb ram
6x500gb drives
8/mbps (suppose to be 10)
3000gb bandwidth
All of this comes to $917 a month.
The thing is I'm a Systems Engineer for my 9-5 anyway, so there's nothing in the hardware/OS configuration that would send me on a loop. I get especially skiddish since all of this data which is my livelyhood I don't even have physical access to, even if I wanted to do something simple like backup the video uploads directory to an external drive or something of the sort just for peace of mind.
I'm guessing my only option would be a 10mbps plan through Time Warner's business class (which I have no idea what that runs yet) then just purchase the server and UPS and just chuck it up in the office.
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Feb 27, 2008
Recently I bought a static IP from an ISP and trying to setup so that I can enable my home PC as a web server and can be accessible thru internet.
I wanted to setup with Apache Server. I have windows vista OS installed. Please point me where I can find some documentation on web server setup and configuring static IP address, firewall setup, etc.,
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Dec 20, 2008
Web hosting from home,
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Jun 21, 2007
I already have a web server hosting around 70 web sites with FastHosts who charge me around £350 per month. I am a one man band and looking to cut monthly costs. On my web server with FastHosts, I have around 6 IP addresses all used for specific purposes such as SSL and public web sites and all works just fine.
I have just purchased a fast 8mb BT Network Business broadband connection at home along with 13 static IP addresses and built an office on my land that is secure. I want to host my own servers here on the premises that gives my clients the same services they currently get but without me having to pay £350 per month.
BT now tell me that the router they provided cannot route more than 1 IP address to the same machine. The router can only route 1 IP address to 1 PC. This means to achive what I already have would mean purchasing several servers and hosting clients web sites on an individual server.
I have a Windows 2003 server that I know can host all the sites I need including secure and public from one machine. I also know that each secure web site requires it's own IP address and I have those from BT.
Have you any ideas if there are any routers out there that work on broadband connections that can forward more than 1 IP address to the same computer and still work just fine with the BT set-up that I have?
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Oct 4, 2007
I wanted to host a website from home and
- registered domain with godaddy.com
- created account with everydns.net and updated the nameserver information at godaddy
- My webserver is Apache Http server and I have a router between my system and ISP's modem, so i did the port forwarding and also opened the port to public. I have also used a port other than 80 because I thought my ISP might block port 80.
My problem is i can access my webpages from my home machine(server) but not from my office machine. one interesting note is my ISP is COX and i have asked my friend who also has COX to check the site and He was able to access my website.
I checked checkdnsDOTnet and nothing seem to be a problem and i have also checked the port at canyouseemeDOTorg and the port seems to be open.
I used DOT to indicate '.' , because I am not allowed to link URLs
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Jun 8, 2009
I have my old house of 330 Sq. feet. No one is living there.
How can I use if for hosting purpose or something like that ?
Its on First floor of well Cement Concrete Building.
No water leakage , no electricity problems.
Can I use this space for hosting purpose or something like collocation facility ?
Is yes, what is needed ?
I know -
Backup Generators
HVAC cooling system
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Jul 2, 2008
The best way to start today is with a small biz website hosted under linux at home. I believe this is the solution... if your website grows generating profits you can buy more computers or servers this will pay the expenses itself... No hiden fees, no monthly fees (except a few more dollars for electricity). I host in ubuntu server edition with gnome-desktop surfing, working & hosting at the same.
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May 5, 2008
I am having Tomcat 5.5.26 version running in my PC I want to Publish all to the internet. Moreover I am having static IP address and Domain Name.
The actual problem is : I am having the Internet Connection through the following way.
We are having the router which is connected with HUB. my PC is connected with HUB, There are another 4 PC's also connected with the HUB. now If I tried to open my domain name for example. http mydomain net it opens my routers home page but I need to open my PC's tomcat home page. How can I get this done.
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Jan 29, 2008
running my website from home. i have procured a static ip from my isp. i have also register the ip on opendns.com but now its not loading the site when i lunch the ip on browser. i prefer using the ip to reach my content. i am running iis on windows server 2003.
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May 23, 2007
I am thinking to start a web hosting business in the UK and I wonder how to start. Is there any internet providers in the UK who allow customers to provide web hosting at office or at home.
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Jun 6, 2008
I have several servers here at my home. I want to run them up on a really fast upload like 10 - 100 mbps. How would i get this in the UK at home. I heared that you can get multiple connections and blwnd them together. Is this right.
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Oct 13, 2008
This is a nice company,but i am not allowed to make backups of my home pc and put them on my shared hosting account.
For the rest i like this company,but i also want to use a hostingaccount for my own backups.
Can you recommend me a company like hostgator where i am allowed to put backups on the hostingaccount?
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Mar 30, 2009
I currently own my own hosting company using another companies servers, which is good, and I've learned a lot of the ins and outs of hosting, but there's a great deal I need to learn before I start Hosting using my own servers. Can anyone provide some good resources or books that might help me get on with my mission?
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Apr 25, 2007
I am just considering to relocate one of my four sites from the current Ipowerweb shared hosting to a managed VPS one. I am fed up with their ftp upload speed problems and level of customer service and I want to upgrade to something sort of "semi dedicated".
Please consider that I am a beginner in VPS and i do not know anything about Linux other than it is an operating system. I have a few questions:
1) Managed or Unmanaged VPS
I guess as a beginner I would preferably have to opt for a managed VPS solution? Do you agree?
2) Easiest and most secure Linux Operating system to choose for VPS
I do not wanna end up having to fine tuning security issues or setting command line OS options (just want to reboot the server if needed and accomplish simple operations whithin the control panel). For example VPSlink at [url] shows me so many OS choices (centos, ubuntu, debian, fedora, opensuse etc. ) that make me confuse .
As a beginner which one is the easiest and most secure Linux Operating systems to choose?
3) Easiest VPS Control Panel
I am currently using Ipowerweb vDeck and aPlus control panels. What is the easiest VPS control panel to choose?
4) VPS Unlimited domains hosting
Does that mean that i can host unlimited domains or just park/redirect domains like in the shared hosting?
5) Preloaded PHP, MYSQL and other plugins/addons
Do they come included in the package like in shared hosting or do I have to install them myself?
6) VPS Dedicated IP and Search Engine Optinisation (SEO)
If I have one single VPS dedicated IP and many hosted websites do they share they same IP? How this affect the SEO effort if, for example, Google see all the websites sharing the same IP and linking each other? How would the announced Host Gator SEO Hosting [url]overcome this issue (no idea what multiple C classes are )?
7) VPS Hardware / resource selection
What minimum resources would you recommend for the following website profile?
Size: 45MB
Type/Features: Static pages, no forum or dynamic database driven pages
Daily Unique visitors: 4,000
Max bandwidth: 1,5 GB per month
8) Which cheap managed VPS to choose under 30$ a month?
Considering all the above, which cheap and managed VPS solution (possibly under 30$ a month) would you suggest to a beginner?
I noticed good reviews for KnownHost and they offer a basic semi-managed 20$ a month plan. Would a semi-managed plan good for a beginner like me? Any similar offers, with strong Customer support, you would suggest to look into?
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Apr 4, 2007
i was just wondering can we build our own pc and send it to a data center?
I was planning on just building a cheap pc with maybe an xp3000+, 512mb of ram and stack in 2TB worth of HDD space on it, then just pay for the rack space and the b/w
But, is this possible, is a normal midi tower case to big for this?
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Apr 16, 2008
I understand the risks of not using a datacenter, but for a smallish site to which uptime isn't key, is it possible to get server-quality bandwidth to my house? (No I don't mean like Gigabit, I mean like upwards of 5mbps)? I'd really like to maintain my own server (probably build one).
I live in Milwaukee, so colocation is, AFAIK, out. And while I can save up for and buy a computer every few years, I cannot sustain $80/month. (I am a middle school student. My income isn't exactly regular.)
So the question... can I get an ISP to let me run a server at decent speeds out of my house? Would its costs exceed colocation or that of a dedicated server?
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Nov 6, 2009
Have had my support ticket open for over a week now, have added a few exta replies to it, no response from them. They haven't been on MSN either.
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Mar 15, 2009
I have a spare machine which is fairly fast, i like to know what are the steps to make a web server from home that actually works well, i have a static IP and a fast internet too.
Which operating system works better and any guide to a step by step setup.
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Apr 14, 2009
How do I keep users from spying on each others files? If I chmod -x /home/ all kinds of crap breaks. Would setting 660 along with setfacl u:apache:rwx work?
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Jun 5, 2008
I want to ask if what are the things needed to establish my own server here at home? What are racks? I did some research but I can't understand it.
What are the things needed? RAM? bandwidth where to get? by the way my location is here in philippines
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Aug 8, 2008
to replace the current router/firewall/gateway on my home LAN with a lower-end PC running pfSense. (A FreeBSD-based distro with a web GUI for managing pf and the like.)
Since the system will be passing all the network traffic anyway, I'm interested in the possibility of having it watch for anything suspicious. Snort is the obvious choice: I want it to spot incoming/outgoing suspicious network activity.
What I wonder, though, is if there is really a lot of benefit to running this on a home LAN? If it was a big corporate network, I could see wanting it to keep an eye on things, but we only have a handful of machines, and they're all pretty secure.
It'd be running on a ~1 GHz PC with 512 MB RAM... Given that the machine would already be acting as firewall/router, caching DNS server, and running PHP/Apache for the management interface / graph generation, is piling Snort on top of that asking for trouble?
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Feb 23, 2008
I'm just wondering what the practicalities and problems might be in setting up a web server from home. At the moment we have a 2Mb cable connection but our provider offers a 20Mb connection.
Would it be possible to set up a small hosting business from home with such a connection?
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Jan 3, 2008
i got new os reload to my server.. my old hard disk is connected to my server as a second driver i have got some files to move my first hard driver.. but i can't see my home folder.. second hd mount on mnt/sdc1
when i do this
[root@server3 sdc1]# dir
aquota.user grub lost+found System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL
config-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL.img message System.map-2.6.9-42.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp
config-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp initrd-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp.img message.ja System.map-2.6.9-42.ELsmp
config-2.6.9-42.EL initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.img quota.user vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL
config-2.6.9-42.ELsmp initrd-2.6.9-42.ELsmp.img System.map-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp
where is my home folder
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Aug 13, 2007
I want to run a server from my home, so I find this provider:
[url]
and the plan is FastAccess 6MB
so with the plan comes a static IP and I asked theyr support and they say YES , I cant run my own server
so here is my question: is that a good idea and what about the speed?
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Jul 20, 2007
I have a home network as described bellow on the picture (It's in Portuguese but I guess you'll manage to understand it).
My Network Scheme
[url]
I have a domain (let's say abc.com) hosted in AFRAID which is updated by my router since
I have a dynamic IP. I want to have different sub-domains redirected to different computers, for example:[url]redirects to my Desktop computer
[url]redirects to my Laptop 1
My Linksys WRT54GL Router is running Tomato firmware and my Fonera Router is running DD-WRT firmware.
Since I do NOT have a static IP is it possible to make this?
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Nov 6, 2007
I'm thinking about ordering a VPS from RazorServers, but haven't been able to get ahold of anyone there to answer a few simple sales questions for almost 24 hours - tried calling, the sales extension just rings and rings, their AIM and MSN contacts listed on their website aren't logged in, submitted a ticket yesterday afternoon with no response. None of this gives me much confidence that if I have problems after setup that I'll be able to get ahold of anyone.
Anybody know if this is normal for RazorServers? If so, any recommendations of other good providers of Xen VPSs in the northeast (Philadelphia, New York, Boston, etc.)?
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Mar 5, 2007
to move:
/dev/sda6 1012 506 506 50% /tmp
/tmp 1012 506 506 50% /var/tmp
to /home
and make Symlink or something.
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Jan 2, 2007
Clients home directories keep randomly being deleted. The accounts aren't terminated, just the home directories.
I've changed root pass etc, any other ideas what could be causing this?
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Feb 3, 2007
I set /tmp partition with noexec, but not /home do you think it's a good idea to do so?
I belive it won't break perl/php scripts (maybe just those being directly called as an executable on CRON) anyone know any cons for that?
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Sep 27, 2007
I am currently leasing a VPS and the kbps upload rate is below my upload rate at home, so I am going to save 50 bucks/ month and move it to home.
I plan on using an older dell desktop with 512mb ram. I would like to use this also as sorta a sync host between my laptop and desktop. I would like to be able to sync certain folders and files which would be stored on the server. I also obviously need to have ftp access, smtp (no knowledge of this area), mysql, php, etc. My big question is which OS should I use? I have fiddled around had a local copy of my site working on my main desktop in windows using apache. Should I stick with windows or would I be better served using a linux distro such as ubuntu? I currently have a static IP address at home. How do I handle the nameservers?
Another thing is how easily can I manage things like emails and subdomains?
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