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How to become a web hosting provider?

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question by Srirangan | Moderate

In an attempt to provide complete solutions to clients, mainly small-medium sized business' here in the nations capital city, we've decided to invest in setting up web servers and provide hosting services.

Could some of the more experienced members provide suggestions and clues on how to proceed? What all will we need? What are the bare minimums? And ofcourse what do you recommend .. Thanks!

- Srirangan

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Re: How to become a web hosting provider?

reply by keyvez

I recommend using a linux distro, I am personally using Open Suse 10 for my web server and an old Dell 2400 with a 2 Ghz proc. and 1 gb RAM.

Apache 2.2.0, PHP 5, and the best Admin program Webmin with Virtualmin for Virtual Servers.

Also never ever compile anything, only use packages like RPM or equivalent, unless you're a linux guru.

Get cpanel or equivalent if you can to allow auto sign-up and stuff.

Make sure your ISP hasn't blocked inbound port 80 or outbound port 25 access. Otherwise you'll have to resort to methods like routing traffic to other ports.

MAke sure you're upstream speed is pretty decent, most ISP limit upstream speed since most users don't use/need high upstream bandwidth, web servers do.

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Re: How to become a web hosting provider?

reply by Srirangan

Thanks for the info mate. I'll get back to you when things move forward on this front. Cheers!

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