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VPS for webhosting?
Hi everyone!
I was just wondering if I can get some advice on the specifications for a VPS for the purpose of hosting websites. Specifically, I am looking to get a VPS to start a web hoster and was wondering what the requirements would be.
I've read a few posts at other forums and there seems to be no set standard in terms of ram and CPU cores.. In terms of space I've been looking at packages with <100GB of space so I am not looking for a particularly large VPS.
Thanks for your help!
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Hang on, my mistake I thought this was the request forum.
What will you host? How much people - req/s?
I have 128mb+128burst with lighttpd+php5+mysql and I can pull about 50 req/s without problems.
Why all the I-dunno-nothin-about-hosting-but-I-want-to-sell-it-to-earn-lots-o'-money want to start a hosting company? @ollie123 If you don't know even the primaries of hosting and servers, why the hell you want to start your own company? Don't you see that you will end scamming people just an only because your lack of knowledge? Or you don't mind and you just want to steal their money? What are you? A web designer? An internet administrator? A web hosting specialist? If no, get out of that job until you learn the basics first!
@MSPNick, when are you going to stop spamming your offers on every thread you find?
@jvnadr thanks for the advice! But I wasn't looking to start a webhosting company to "make loads of money". Like you suggested, it was actually for me to learn the basics first and I was only planning to host my own websites and offer to host others for free.. I had no intention to sell anything. I am currently studying a SysAdmin program and thought it was a good idea to apply learned knowledge to my own servers..
I was looking at larger space packages cause one of my blogs is photography related and I would need the extra space.
someone ban this spamming idiot
@ollie123 In this case, I'm sorry if I offended you. But your original message is unclear. If you want to learn and host your own sites or your friends, and not starting a company, just give us some more specs about the nature of web hosting you need. What is your site's structure? Static? Dynamic? Want a mail server? How many hits per day? Java? Multimedia?
Generally, for 1-2 to 9-10 sites (depending on load and traffic), you can start with 1GB mem, 2-3 vcpus, ssd cached drives, from a reputable provider in LET (mu suggestions is Prometeus, Ram Node, Dr. Server, Inception Hosting, DO. Try IWStack from prometeus, it is scalable, extremely stable, quick enough and very very cheap, compared to competitors, but their interface is not so easy for noobies. Milan and Dallas locations).
100+ GB of disk is fairly high for a VM just because disk space is more precious than perhaps other resources in most scenarios which sometimes leads to higher cost. I would say re-evaluate that number and if your just looking to spin up some VMs for free use VirtualBox on your home PC to tinker and have some fun with it before perhaps pulling the trigger a longer term solution for your photography blog etc. Also nothing wrong with say using Flickr for the images and then just embedding them.