How can you tell how much bandwidth you can get?
I want to buy my own server, just for the heck of it, how can you tell how much bandwidth you can get? And, how do you make it have a Cpanel and webmail, php, asp, Mysql, and all the other stuff?
I want to buy my own server, just for the heck of it, how can you tell how much bandwidth you can get? And, how do you make it have a Cpanel and webmail, php, asp, Mysql, and all the other stuff?
mairving posted this at 15:27 — 27th January 2004.
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Are you talking about a dedicated server or buying/building your own?
If you are going to buy/build your own, are you going to have it as a COLO (located at a server farm somewhere) or do you plan on hosting it yourself?
Mark Irving
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teammatt3 posted this at 15:51 — 27th January 2004.
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I am building my own, and hosting my own
mairving posted this at 15:53 — 27th January 2004.
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What kind of connection (Cable, DSL, T1)? If using Cable or DSL, most ISP's can cancel your account with them since running a webserver violates their TOS.
Mark Irving
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teammatt3 posted this at 15:54 — 27th January 2004.
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well I guess I can't, sorry to bug you
mairving posted this at 16:22 — 27th January 2004.
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Just check with them first. Most of the times they don't really do anything unless you are consuming a lot of bandwidth or sharing mp3's or other files.
You can still setup a server at home to run locally accessed by computers in your local LAN for development of sites, etc. To do so once your system is built, you will need to load either Linux or BSD on it. During install, it will ask what programs to install and you can install PHP, MySQL and Apache. ASP is not a free option so I would forget about it. CPanel is not a good option since it is quite expensive to run on just one server unless you are hosting other accounts. If you go with Linux, Fedora or Mandrake are probably the easiest to install. My preference tends to go towards FreeBSD or Slackware.
You aren't bugging me. I am just trying to tell you all that you need to know before you decide to undertake this endeavor.
Mark Irving
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mairving posted this at 16:36 — 27th January 2004.
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Getting back to your original question about bandwidth, it is very difficult to gauge. It depends greatly on your site. Does it have a lot of visitors, images, downloadable files, etc.? If it is mostly text with a few images and not many visitors, your bandwidth would be very minimal.
Mark Irving
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teammatt3 posted this at 23:52 — 27th January 2004.
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thanks, I think I want to set up a picture sharing file thing
mrowton posted this at 02:48 — 8th May 2004.
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My ISP allows me any inbound services, provided I don't go over bandwidth limit and dont spread viruses / other bad things.
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