I am going to be needing dedicated hosting for about 3 sites.

1. "Modeling" website, using restricted access to member's area. Members may view photosets as well as download zips of the photosets and download video clips of the women.

2. "Referral" site (banner site)...with free content from other modeling sites and banner links to their sites.

3. "Merchant" site...site which will have a storefront where I can sell merchandise from.


Someone said get dedicated hosting and host all my sites on the one server. They recommended Rackshack.net to me for site hosting.

They have a $99/month plan: 60g hd, 512mg ram, celeron 1.3gHz, 400 gig bandwidth/transfer ($1.50/gig for overs).

But, I don't see anything about being able to have a "store" (unless it's included in the higher priced plans that I have neglected to investigate).

my questions are:

How do you feel about RackShack (?) and that $99 program to host my sites ?

How can I go about doing a store to sell merchandise?

(In reference to Rackshack) What is the difference between "Red Hat Linux 7.2" and this "Ensign" system?




Thanks guys. Excuse my ignorance, I'm new at this.