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born2hack

I am living in Delhi and plan to keep a web server of my own for my websites.
To those:
a) Who want to suggest me "Don't go for it", I am going to...
b) Want to tell me "Will cost a lot", Thats what this topic is for...

I have the server, sufficient supply, I can manage it easily. The problem is all about brodaband.

I need a cheap, high speed and unlimited broadband connection. 2 MBPS will be great for me. As I check the MTNL website, 2 MBPS U?L is 9,000/- a month. Thats approx. 200$+/month... I can easily get a better server from some other areas in that price.

So any suggestions about what I can/I should do?

Plus if anyone did this before? How much electricity does this cost? Any ideas?

Thanks
born2hack

Admin

What exactly is your query? I see you have answered all your questions yourself.

If you still have any query please list out your questions so we can try and help you out.

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sb21pro

why do so much??
just get a hosting package
u can get unlimited storage for just Rs399 a month

Admin

LOL
I read what he said in point a)...

sb21pro

i think this born2hack guy must have hacked himself

and can any one tel me what does LOL stadnds for?

Admin

LOL= Laughing out loud

just4kix

No business venture should be made without:

- cost / benefit analysis
- ROI (Return on Investment) analysis
- Risk analysis and Risk Mitigation methods

Assuming MTNL is the cheapest, still Rs. 9000 pm is a large amount. If putting up personal web sites is what interests you, you could look for web hostinng providers such as host gator.

But if it is not too much confidential, if you could explain your purposes and aims more candidly, a number of useful suggestions may come up.

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born2hack

The questions:
So any suggestions about what I can/I should do?

Plus if anyone did this before? How much electricity does this cost? Any ideas?

I will add another:
I just need a the cheapest internet connection and at least 1 MBPS(U/L), which provider should I go with?

And its NOT a personal site. I mainly want the server to be on my side. And I plan to sell a few my friends hosting on that server, thats why I might buy cPanel/WHM.

I hope I made myself clear.

born2hack

lunatichead

like Just4kix said no plan should be made with this factors in mind

- cost / benefit analysis
- ROI (Return on Investment) analysis
- Risk analysis and Risk Mitigation methods

you could normally take a hosting plan for urself!!!! decide what services is your website going to provide to the end user..... for example is your site going to contain only information or a lot of intraction from the users side as well which would be increasing the serverside load for your website. any kind off downloads or even flash movies, how goood is your data streaming mechanism going to be. who is going to be your target audience for example a website about "CCNA" would attract only people aspiring for carreer in networks it would not attract a normal surfer. these are just the starting things that u would need to keep in mind and plan!!!!

As far as the hardware is concernd you could take up a machine with a fairly good amount of ram!!! and processor speed lets 8 GB for a start would be ok i guess!!!!.

The best web server could be a linux box coz with it u can decide exactly wat services you want your server to run, primarily Apache server would be for your hosting, netfilter for your security routing, for internal load balancing., database services Mysql.....,,,........ what else..... proxy for your internal use as well.......... these are the basic things that i could think about... then you got to think about electricity maintainance as well... the major thing you would need to do is monitor the traffic to your website and then take an average hit on your website by which you could know the processor loads at different parts of the day and determine wether you need any upgrades as stuff... at this point a migration also comes into play... these are the starters ..... but dude you got a good thought !!!! try it out get hold of any linux OS learn it if you have good for you!!!!

Nothing is impossible... i have seen guys do this mostly in the US i guess bbb.rpmfind.com rpmfind - linux news and resources is one such site if iam not mistaken. i could be getting the sites name wrong but this site provides service of dowloading latest rpms !!!!

relton

Whoa!! 2mbps line @ Rs 9k, that's a lot.

kamalian

Didn't exactly understand what is your need. But I think, there is better servers with good rate in TheRackspace and ThePlanet and all. They are the top two leading server providers with good rate. If you are affordable a Rs. 9000 here. Then you will have to consider them.

ShAdOwCoN

you need a very reliable internet connection

personally i think tat only airtel comes close to tat......

relton

I was merely surprised at the rate, and not anything else.

Admin

You have made two posts till now on this forum and both of them are such that you kind of give an impression that you know everything about hosting... I would say you know jack **** about hosting and the problem with you is that you refuse to learn from others who are exprienced in this field.

I understand you want to sell hosting to your friends or may be increase your customer base a little bit more on the side as you go along..

Your approach is 100% idiotic (Iam not this blunt normally but I dont have any other words to describe this better)
You want to sell hosting and you want to start it up with a 1mbps line that too provided by an Indian isp where you can expect days and days of downtime if not months and thats something I can gurantee that you WILL have a lot of downtime... what would you do in that situation? You have to make sure that the isp allows hosting a server... which in India they dont except for one.

You can get reseller hosting with WHM/Cpanel included with a lot of space and good amount of bandwidth from some one like hostgator for a lot less then you would pay for a 1mbps connection.... This would save you a lot of money and will let you provide a good service to your customers as hostgator servers are at the planet data centre and they have an excelent network with almost 100% uptime which is something of highest importance to any webmaster... Can you imagine this forum hosted on a 1mbps line in India? what would I do if tata or reliance which ever isp I get the connection from doesnt attend my disconnection? what would be this site like if it remained out of reach for our members 3-4 days every month?


Get back to your little senses if you have any and drop this stupid idea of hosting a server at home here in India... I would understand if you were living in UK, USA, Canada or even Hongkong where you get excelent uptime from isps and a lot of them allow hosting servers from home but even then it would still be cheaper to start you rbusiness by getting reseller hosting from a bigger company to star with.

Why do you think all these thousands of hosting companies are in business? They would all go out of business if hosting sites from homes was feasable.

Jai Hind

PS: no offence intended

manojjonam10

It is better that you get a hosting package instead of going for your own server unless for commercial reasons it is not worthwhile an adventure.