Hello
I would like to start VPS company. The current status on our local market is from little to none. Based on this I started to prepare.
My idea is to work with XEN technology and provide both linux(OpenSolaris,BSD) guest and Windows guest via hw VT.
I already prepared self testlab with apropriate hw. The server is running
like a charm with all the loaded guest.
It will be my first server ever put in to colo house. So some things are pretty new for me.
I would like to kindly ask you for some advice in following areas:
1) shall I prepare self DNS server (true HW) to provide dns to my domain or use registrators DNS service? Especialy in the begininig wouldnt be to expensive with few customers? I think DNS reseller will
be enough to start with.
2) i will start with one physical hw server partitioned to aprox 20 guests. The traffic shaping and accounting will be done directly on the host os. Is that good idea or shall I prepare special hw server/Cisco just for routing and traffic shaping infront of xen server/s?
3) shall I put companys website on VPS on my one xen server? I think
that this would be problem in case (I hope not :-) when the xen host will go down than main website will be down to. So is that good idea to put the website on shared hosting somewhere and in the future when next servers will come, transfer it to my own hardware?
4) the colo space is well connected, backed up with UPS. They offer ftp space for backup. What shall I think of when ordering IP addresses?
I think 32ips block will be enough for start with this one server.
Especialy related to xen - better to go with default bridged or routed networking?
I would like to kindly ask you for any comments to this topic.
Thank you for your attention.
xenware