[dundee] Dedicated Servers

[Gordon Dunlop]

Hi Bill,

I am intending to run my own server from my home, when I get another 101 
things completed. Many Linux people do this via an ASDL broadband 
unlimited connection. As long as the traffic is not that too heavy to 
annoy your ISP, it is O.K. ISP's  can vary differently with this. You 
are right about the Virtual Private Servers , this is where many VPS's 
are run on one physiacl machine with alloted disk space concurrently 
using physical hardware and services. The individual VPS's are allocated 
a percentage of the hardware resources and are securely separated from 
one another by namespace, Virtuozzo and OpenVZ  (commercial and open 
source respectively), operate like this. Some people feel more secure 
having their services based from a data centre rather than from a home 
location.  Here are a couple of guides for setting up these things :

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch01_:_Why_Host_Your_Own_Site%3F

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_server_fedora7

Have a look at them and weigh up the Pros and Cons according to your 
needs, I am sure other members of the Taylug have got Linux server 
experiences that can aid in your decisions.  Whilst I have gave you 
Fedora links,  Debian can also be a very good server distro. It is just 
that I am so familiar with Fedora and I may be biased in my thinking as 
I think the server capabilities of Fedora outshines many distros for 
ease of use and application e.g.  I have never had any problem using and 
configuring Apache,  Light Apache,  FTP,  NFS and Samba servers.

Gordon  


William Cameron wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I'm interested in getting a dedicated server so i can have a central 
> location for all my stuff on the net, and maintain a web and email 
> server or myself.  I've looked around a little, and some of the 
> companies sites i've visited are quite expensive.
>
> Was wandering if anyone could recommend any companies they've maybe 
> found good in the past or are with just now that aren't too expensive.
>
> I'm looking for a root server, I'm more of a windows server guy to be 
> honest, but i DO want a *nix box, partly cuz their cheaper, and the 
> fact i'm part of a linux usergroup.. so it would be also be a toy to 
> play around with from that perspective too.  Also I noticed some 
> places doing VPS, virtual private servers, which i assume are like 
> virtual pc's, with serveral on teh one physical machine.. do these 
> operate from my point of view, like any other root server, except that 
> the resources may be shared between several of the companies customers.
>
> Hope someone can shed some light onto the situation, and help me get 
> things running soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
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