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I am interested in hosting my company's website. What would I need to do on my end, to do so? I realize the domain needs to be pointed to a new server. But here in the office, what would I need?

Thanks
Paul in San Diego
 
Why? Reliable feature-rich hosting is cheap these days, with much more bandwidth than your ISP's upload speed will be for the same monthly cost. I pay $72 per year for 100GB webspace and unlimited bandwidth (was previously 1.5TB per month), including registration of two domains, and a shit ton of other features. Download speed from my web host regularly maxes out my 5Mbit cable connection, which is limited to something like 384Kbit upload and costs $500+ per year.
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
Why? Reliable feature-rich hosting is cheap these days, with much more bandwidth than your ISP's upload speed will be for the same monthly cost. I pay $72 per year for 100GB webspace and unlimited bandwidth (was previously 1.5TB per month), including registration of two domains, and a shit ton of other features. Download speed from my web host regularly maxes out my 5Mbit cable connection, which is limited to something like 384Kbit upload and costs $500+ per year.
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QFT... but beware of companies that oversell like tscenters does. They all have invisible limits, and they are not very high.

I would recommend going with an outfit with clearly outlined limits.
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
QFT... but beware of companies that oversell like tscenters does. They all have invisible limits, and they are not very high.
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All shared hosting providers oversell, period, whether a "limit" is put in writing or not. The only difference is by what factor or percentage, which nobody but the host provider knows for sure.
 
The reason I am interested is because I have first of all, done business with so many of these companies that do hosting. Currently my site has been with A+Net for a dozen or more years. The disk space and uptime guarantee is great, but the site has been hacked into and their tech support is doing nothing to help me. And I have been doing websites for a long time, and done business with many, MANY hosting companies. When clients call with a problem, I rate the hosting company on reaction time and how helpful they are. A+ has been good 'til this past couple years when they moved to the midwest. Now I am going to relocate all six of my own websites to another location. It may as well be here at my office.

At least my primary one. I don't want to run six from here, but I want control over my company's primary site.

So, again, anyone have any experience with software necessary for web hosting?
 
Depends on what your website does. You need a webserver at minimum and then support for any scripting languages, databases, etc that you use.
 
All the company website does, is provide about 50 or so pages of information about what we do and testimonials. There's a dozen pages or so of FAQ's etc but there is nothing on our company site to prevent it from being hosted anywhere on any system. It's all HTML...with CSS menus.
 
Best bet for something simple like that in my opinion is to install Linux in a virtual machine with Apache web server. Forwarding ports to your VM is pretty simple with VirtualBox, and I assume it is with most virtualization software.
 
Originally posted by: tcsenter
Originally posted by: Scouzer
QFT... but beware of companies that oversell like tscenters does. They all have invisible limits, and they are not very high.
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All shared hosting providers oversell, period, whether a "limit" is put in writing or not. The only difference is by what factor or percentage, which nobody but the host provider knows for sure.
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What I meant is if you have clearly defined limits, you won't get booted from the host for using them. If it says Unlimited, you could get kicked any time.
 
The company I work for hosts our servers at a colo, but besides AT&T providing the racking, power, and internet connection, we maintain everything else. What we have is a HA pair of Windows 2003 servers running SQL Server. Four additional servers have IIS6 hosting the ASP.NET site using a load balancer to route traffic. We also have a hardware Cisco firewall, Cisco switch, plus another pair of Windows 2003 server hosting DNS and AD. The biggest thing you will notice is the redundancy needed to support the site and the need to still host it at a colo. If you host it in house, you will need two 10mbit pipes at least in case one fails. Typically, one will be provided by AT&T and the second by Sprint for example.
 
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