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Dedicated Server with Directadmin
I never had any intention to start on the hosting Business, I am a web developer myself, it all start with few client that want me to hosts and manage their website, fast forward 2 years later. I am managing 200 clients (about $50 / year / client), and it takes its tolls on me.
My client phone me in the middle of the night asking me how to order server / services, how to signup, forgot their login password.
I am currently having servers on various providers, and it becomes more difficult having to keep track, which is which.
Any suggestion to make me not losing my insanity and my social / family live ?
I am considering moving all of them to one dedicated server with directadmin. Is 1 dedicated server enough for 200 client ? any recommended dedicated provider that offer free directadmin ?
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@Clouvider does solid dedicated servers with free DA.
Depending on your content and websit type, you might not even need a dedi but a decent sized VM would be perfect
I would suggest a managed VPS - There is a company similar to wiredmouse, but I forgot its name that has reasonable prices. If it doesnt have to be DA, you could also go to 20i.com and get one of their resellers for 40 euros a month. Includes CDN, plus a good WordPress Staging setup - might be the perfect thing to get everyone under 1 service and have a tech support team thats more than 1 person
My clients are exclusively school / educational institution, so it's school website, elearning , scholl databases, and stuff.
And all of them is based on wordpress.
Assuming they are local, any location preference?
A dedicated server might be slightly overkill and entirely depends on whether or not you have experience managing servers, if you don't then a managed server could easily eat up most of your income from those. It's probably worth going with a VPS or even a few larger reseller accounts with the same host, but get them split across different servers.
I would second Clouvider, highly recommended also.
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Anything past an 8gb plan is managed and obviously includes Directadmin and Softaculous.
Francisco
School/educational counts as government (at least where I'm from) so it might be worth your sanity to have your own dedicated server as a centralized hosting platform... And if data privacy issues are important, you can also tell your clients that you are hosting in a secured, non-shared environment.
@yokowasis -- where are most your clients? Europe, North America, other?
If your looking for a managed solution definitely go with KnownHost! @jonathanspw
https://www.knownhost.com/managed-vps.html
I've had family members use them for managed websites.
@LiteServer They have managed dedicated servers with free DA and daily backups
in NL
They don't advertise so mail them , I am using it no problems so far.
No, it's just a normal website for students. Additional 1 second of loading time is fine.
Well, I do have 2 years of experience. But managing server + managing the software isn't as fun as it used to be.
Is this the high volume plans ? it's out of stock.
All of my clients in Indonesia
Thanks.
I would strongly suggest, go with KnownHost and sleep well at night or Get yourself a nice dedicated server, spend 40 bucks a month on out sourced support (not a big fan) like this one : https://www.24x7servermanagement.com/directadmin-server-management.html
Happy to work with you for a DA server in Singapore if that'd be better for your customers and for you based on timezone differences.
We'll have more tomorrow Let me know in PM what might interest you.
Francisco
I can't really oursourced support, because mostly they contact me with personal phone number, because well, when I started this, it's what it is. A personal project.
@yokowasis the advantage knownhost (or other similar vendors) would give you is that you will have other people available to assist you, should you hit a roadblock or are busy with other things- you can submit a ticket to them for support. So although your clients will contact you- you will always have someone to turn to for help
Dedicated server is good in this case.
But you can still manage with a VPS as they are not too much heavy traffic websites.
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Thank you all for recommending us, much appreciated!
There’s a dedicated servers sale running here https://www.clouvider.co.uk/dedicated-servers-sale/ we’d love to help you consolidate it all with us, so if you can’t find anything for yourself over there don’t hesitate to get in touch :-)
All the best!
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If it's not too heavy sites, a Reseller @BuyFrancisco or Ramnode might do the trick. Ramnode also got the backup part covered iirc You should still do your own, but it's some peace of mind.
KnownHost is also a great pick. A dedi ofc, too. Although if you don't want to manage it, get a managed one
i'd recommend knownhost with cpanel. KnownHost support is second to none.
If you get a server with DirectAdmin, support will come from the provider who provides the server and will only cover certain issues and NOT DirectAdmin directly.
Since all of your clients are in Indonesia, I suggest you find dedicated server in Indonesia. As I know there is an Indonesian dedicated server provider that offers free DA license.
I'm a web designer too and have over 1500 clients hosted, The high load/traffic websites are in a managed dedicated with @jonesolutions , they do a great job, I'm working with they since 2-3 years ago, first with a cpanel server and now moved to a directadmin one.
For small websites and medium traffic I used to have a 125GB Cpanel Reseller at BuyVM @Francisco , The last year since they offer free DA on their slices I moved those to 1024 Slices in vegas. Im not a sysadmin but have a basic knowledge about it and can handle with that. To install DA I followed this tutorial by @eva2000 https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/159121/guide-to-installing-directadmin-on-centos-7 Until now all is working great with them
Thanks for the mention!
OP - we offer Reseller hosting as well as VPS / VDS. DA licenses are $3/mo.
Does it mean You offer managed services for that particulat plan?
Yes sir.
Francisco