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06-22-2012, 08:59 PM #1New Member
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MOST BENEFICIAL SETUP
Ok, first, I am running this business from the home. I have a good internet connection etc...The business is just starting and have 3 clients thus far.
I understand how to set things up for the msot part, but before I waste more time I have a couple questions about the setup of my servers.
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My question is what in the opinions of ya'lls would be best?
I have legal versions of Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2 as well as CentOS 6.2(open source I know...)
Server 1: 2 x Xeon CPU's 2.8 GHz with 2 GB RAM, 2 NIC's 146GB SCSI drive (will be adding an additional drive shortly).
Server 2: 2 x Dual Core Xeon CPU's 2.66 GHz with 5GB, 160GB SATA HDD adding 1 TB drive soon.
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Server #1 my thought is to use this as the PDC/File Share which will also host Enkompass CP.
Server#2 Running ESXi 4.1 which I could upgrade to 5.0 and create my virtual machines from it.
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How does this sound? I planned on having only 3-4 VM's on Server 2 until I get more RAM and HDD space.
Thank you for your responses in advance.
I would like to create some VM's and for that I am using ESXi 4.1 for bare metal install.
I plan on using Enkompass unless someone else can provide a better option...
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06-22-2012, 09:25 PM #2Web Hosting Guru
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Your running from home? What are you doing about power failures etc? Its cool to run from home, but do you really want someones business being dependent on your infrastructure? Let alone a couple busy virtual machines will probably overload your line.
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06-22-2012, 09:40 PM #3New Member
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I did think about that...UPS in place, and eventually will probably do a COLO somewhere. There is a huge-long story behind what I am doing...but can not go in to all that.
I am actually looking at having a VPS (offsite)in place to also assist with power failures etc.
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06-22-2012, 11:21 PM #4Junior Guru
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What do you mean by:
CentOS 6.2(open source I know...)
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06-23-2012, 03:38 AM #5Total Nerd
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From the sound of your post you want to do this right from the beginning, so step 1 to doing it right is move your clients out of your house and into a proper data center with full redundancy and security that you cannot offer from your house... then worry about hardware/software.
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06-23-2012, 05:55 PM #6Web Hosting Guru
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Why not just pick up a good VPS for your three customers and spend some time setting up your 2 servers properly and then ship them to a good colocation facility, I think there are serveral that you can do this with for about $40 a piece if they are in 1u cabs.
Seriously your clients deserve a decent place for thier websites and if your serious about really starting a hosting company then take your time and do it right.
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06-23-2012, 05:59 PM #7Web Hosting Guru
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06-23-2012, 06:10 PM #8Web Hosting Guru
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I just can't let this go, you absolutely should not, under no circumstances, run a web hosting company that sells accounts to the general public from a home based data center unless you actually put in a comercial grade data center in your home. That would cost thousands of dollars even to properly do one single rack.
There is a huge, huge difference in folks setting up home based web hosting companies, utilizing data centers and literally trying to provide the actual hosting on servers at their house on essentially a home network with a fast small business connection. Is that what you are saying you doing?
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06-23-2012, 06:13 PM #9Total Nerd
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06-23-2012, 08:17 PM #10Moving the Web Forward
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Nope, Nope and Nope lol. Sell your servers and use the money to get your-self a dependable reseller account (use the extra money for advertising or keep a nice cushion for forward operating costs). However under NO circumstance should you move forward with this in-house server enviroment you plan on setting up.
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06-23-2012, 09:21 PM #11WHT Addict
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Oh, for Pete’s sake. Are you serious? Have you discussed this with your internet provider or read their terms of service? What you are doing is for hobbyists, and many of us have done that. It is not the way to host customer web sites.
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06-24-2012, 01:35 PM #12Web Hosting Evangelist
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Second that. There's a huge number of reasons that hosting from home is a bad idea. Zero redundancy, no backup power, not to mention the speed and contention issues that you'd have with a residential connection. And then there's the fact that your ISP likely has something in its terms and conditions that prohibits using your line for hosting.
Sorry to say it, but you're better off going colo, or even starting as a reseller. For your customer's an your business' sake, don't host at home.
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06-24-2012, 01:55 PM #13Web Hosting Evangelist
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It's probably not going to actually cost you that much more to move these servers to a real DC. Especially when you add up the cost of the power these will cost to run at home.
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06-24-2012, 05:10 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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Also if I remember right selling VPS's using ESXi is against vmware's licensing, you will need to buy ESX if you wish to sell VPS's using it.
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06-24-2012, 10:34 PM #15Web Hosting Guru
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Ok, as everyone else is saying, this is obviously not the best way to run a legit hosting business with business type accounts on BUT if you are hell bent on starting out at home, I would suggest getting some more of those SCSI or SAS Drives for your ESXi node to sell VPS accounts from, the SATA Drive you are planing on using is going to burn up if you start running any half way decent VPS accounts on. Doesnt matter how much Ram or CPU you have in these servers Disk IO is going to be the first recourse you run out of. Also, you need to be running a raid array (at least Raid1 if not raid 10) on these servers in case (or should I say WHEN) one of these dirves fail.
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06-24-2012, 11:28 PM #16Total Nerd
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How many IPv4 addresses will a residential ISP provide a single client? Are you going to be using NAT for all of your servers?
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06-25-2012, 04:12 AM #17Web Hosting Evangelist
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06-25-2012, 07:06 PM #18(formerly WhichGunDotCom)
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Don't run a hosting business from home. That is absolutely ridiculous.
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06-26-2012, 04:58 AM #19WHT Addict
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You also need to be in the SPLA scheme to use any Microsoft products for hosting purposes. Simply having an owned license does not permit this.
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06-26-2012, 11:03 AM #20Web Hosting Guru
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Well I feel bad the OP has disappeared. I think he posted in the wrong place. We all fixtated on the from home network and the truth of the matter is he never asked our opinion on that. He might have had better luck getting his question answered in the hardware area.
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