Web Hosting

[keith smith]

I have cox cable and switched from residential cable to business cable for just for that purpose.  It cost me $25/mo more to do so and I am able to run a server.  I've been running an old Dell for almost a year as a LAMP server.  I bought a new i3 but have not configured it.

I was paying $25/mo for a host gator reseller account that was not giving enough resources to run WordPress with any reasonable speed. My home box seems to be fine.  I back it up to AWS3 just in case the box fails.     

My AWS3 backups run about $6/mo and I don't know how much extra electricity my web server uses.  I initially thought it would take less than 3 years to break even however I did not consider the backup costs and the electricity costs.  I did add the extra cost of having a UPS battery backup. Cost is not the entire factor though.  I now have the power to run multiple websites that are built on WordPress.  Note I am moving away from WordPress soon.

I figure a battery backup is a necessity so that is an added expense.   


Down time has been non existent -  both my box and Cox.

I miss WHM/cPanel.  And I miss GoDaddy's webmail.  (I used to host with GoDaddy before moving the HG)


I'm sure I am not giving my server all the love it needs, however it has been running rather well for this year other than the problems I created.  


I had help configuring the box and I have learned a lot.  And I still have a lot to learn.

It is my understanding not all ISP's are created equal.  If you are in a more rural location you may pay more for less.  Then there is the issue of available bandwidth.  My Internet connection services several computers, so if there is several people streaming video, I wonder how that effects the bandwidth needed for the web server?

At this point, for me, I think a home server is the best bang for the buck.

Your mileage may very.

Keith






On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:19 PM, Michael Torres <matorres124 at gmail.com> wrote:
 
Just curious about the cost of the talked about vhosts.  For me...i want to think about having my own server.   
Most of us are "techies" so i am sure we have above average speeds on our personal services.  
Meaning that we are having an expense of internet every month anyways.
Why not see if a isp will drop a business line into your home. 
That would probably have the same if not more speed. With the business service you get at least one ip.
Then the cost of hardware (one time ) expense.
To me that would probaby increase what i am paying now only about 10-20 a month. And i would have more control over my system.

The question would be would an isp drop a biz line into a residential home?
On Feb 19, 2014 10:39 AM, "Paul Mooring" <paul at getchef.com> wrote:

I use digital ocean as well and I'm happy with them, but if you go that route make sure you're aware of some of the security controversies: http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/iaas-provider-digitalocean-finds-itself-back-in-security-trouble/ I'm pretty careful of what I actually store on my VPS there.
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>On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
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>I actually use digital ocean, it's a vps, and they're definitely good for the price.  I was running a starbound and minecraft server on it, and using it as a remote shell for things, never gave me any issue cept I needed more memory to do both.  I ended up have to install some scripts to mitigate asses cracking against my instance, but afd and bfd worked great on it.
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>>That was ubuntu server, but they had a lot of options.
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>>On 02/18/2014 10:19 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
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>>On 2014-02-18 09:55, keith smith wrote:
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>>>Digitalocean.com looks promising. Once you configure your VM is
>>>>there a control panel for configuring your Vhost & email accounts? Or
>>>>do you have to do it manually?
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>>>digitalocean looks like a VPS from their FAQ and articles on their site.  As such, you'll have to set up your SMTP server, IMAP server, and apache yourself.  There are articles on their site about setting all those things up using CentOS 6 and Ubuntu.  If you want a "control panel" like cpanel, then digitalocean might not be the right hosting provider for you.
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>>>digitalocean looks like it'd be slightly cheaper than rackspace for me running this little crow202.org site.  They don't offer Gentoo as an install option though, which means I probably won't switch.
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