Jcat
06-15-2006, 08:17 PM
I have a friend that has a web design company and is always being asked for web hosting. He came to me asking what I can do for him and I thought I would be able to answer everything but now that I think about it, running a web hosting company will be more difficult. I have plenty of experience with WHM and cPanel and some knowledge of linux. He says, there will be a lot of customers coming in so a reseller account is going to be probably out of the question. I told him we should probably go for a dedicated server. I'm pretty sure we are going to go with theplanet, but how do I know which system I'm going to benefit from the most. I was looking at the Total Control ones, but what should I do for backing up the hard drives? I've herd of the different types of RAID but not sure exactly how they work. I just need some straight forward answers on what I should get, not to worried about expense right now. The main things I'm worried about back up, and wanting to be able to support php/asp and all those kind of formats: do they come with linux? Billing system is another one, I currently have Clientexec which is great but I'm going to want to be able to have it so when people sign up there account is setup automaticly. Will I be able to do this with cPanel / WHm? I know I have a lot more questions but for some reason I can't think of them all. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, sorry if I rambled on. ;)