Deciding to Get own server
 

When did you guys feel that it was time to get on server. Did you just want one because you wanted to mess around, or did you want to start a company based around your server?

I just wanted to own my own server. Their was no set point. I started off hosting my own server off of a Cable modem, then I switched to DSL. And then back to a Cable modem. Right now I have a Business Class Cable modem from Comcast. They allow you to run servers off of it. My connection is 6,200kb/s down and 730kb/s up. Thats more than enough to run a small server. I could transfer 160GB+ per month easy. I could run all of my websites off that connection with ease. Running my server off of a Cable and DSL modem was a great learning experience. It taught me allot about servers.

But I wanted more, so I choose co-location. I wouldn't say I want to get rich but I would like to make the server at least pay for its self. And in the same note I would like to earn a little extra money. Right now I am sitting on 15 domain names with 1 developed website. Tomorrow I am launching another website, and I am going to work on the two websites for the next month or so before I launch another. I hope to have 6 fully developed websites by the end of the year. I am releasing them in stages to see how much they are going to stress the server.

The type of websites I am developing are not really good for a shared hosting environment. They put a major stress on the server. A web hosting provider would kick me off of their server in not time flat. So really I have no choice but to run my own servers. This time next year I will be running two to three servers depending on how much my websites stress the server.

P.S. I refuse to start up another server until this one starts paying for its self. Which is $49.99 per month, that shouldn't be to hard to make. (I hope :) )

I just wanted my server as well and it does make my website respond faster than when it was on godaddy. Also I was going to use my godaddy hosting for higher bandwidth so that people could download my files faster.

Soulwatcher, do you mind sharing the links to your sites? I'm a webdesigner and I plan to run my sites from my future servers.

Right now there are 3 websites on the server. And 2 of them are mine, www.llinuxservertalk.com and www.myinternetproxy.com are my websites. And www.adminnation.com I am hosting for someone else. The proxy website just went up last night. I haven't put any ads on it, but I will be with in the next couple of days. The proxy website might be more trouble than its worth, as it really eats up the server resources and bandwidth. I also have some nice domains for a image hosting website and a general chat website. They are going to be the next two websites I launch.

Right now I am just waiting to see how much the proxy website hammers the server. ;) From what I read just a small proxy website will eat up 30% of the servers resources. And if you get a busy proxy it will consume the whole server. :cool:

Edit: I just uploaded another website but its just a static page for my DNS servers. www.salorahosting.com

I use proxy sites mostly for school, because they block the sites of course. I only run handfull of sites but it is not my hosting although I get free unmetered. Hopefully your sites pay off :).

I wanted to host my own website cuz i dont like paying 5$ per month to have it hosted.. So then i got this advertisment at school for an old p1 450Mhz "msn-computer", which was 50euro's So i was like.. 50/5=10months and i will have payed less AND have another funo computer. So then i went to pick it up and got a 150$ p3 1Ghz computer cuz i couldnt controll myself. And iam actually happy with the decision cuz now i also host project of my friends.

I also wanted to mess around w. linux. So i got a lot of terminal experience from setting up the server. And now i switched my desktop to run ubuntu, but iam looking at switching to SuSe 10.1 when it comes out. I WANT GLX, or whatever its called. And i still need to get my ati-card to have accelarted 3D graphics so i can play counterstrike. Which i managed to run via wine but it freezes for 20seconds cuz of the stupid drivers.


Btw the proxy thing.. just kill it off? i mean like u said its a server killer so why keep it?

I ended up selling the proxy website over at site point. Your totally right its a bandwidth and resource hog. I wouldn't recommend hosting one unless your on a dedicated server.

Yah
 

i never really get the whole proxy thing? i mean what are you doing that nobody should find out?

Look at porn? cmon u might aswell call internet pornonet

Well a proxy website is useful if your at work and your work blocks certain websites like myspace. You could use the proxy website to log on myspace.