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chronodekar

chronodekar

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I have an account with blogger.com and I'm thinking of moving to wordpress.

Well, since I'll be doing that, I was wondering if I can run my own apache server from my host. I'm also thinking of setting up an online svn-repository, and perhaps a wiki and a personal web-page as well.

Cost and support will be a big factor for me, and I may as well be asking for the moon. But, I know there are members here who host their own sites and I need a few pointers.

If this is too vague, please tell. I'll clarify as best as I can.

-chronodekar

EDIT/UPDATE : I should mention, I have experience setting up Linux (ubuntu) boxes for hosting web-pages and version control repositories on LAN networks.
 
You can get virtual server accounts from most major hosts, and run whatever you want within reason, but they are fairly expensive. On the order of $100/month or more. But you don't really need to run your own web server. I have Wordpress on a Linux hosting account, which gives me a virtual directory structure, 50 gigs of storage, Apache, MySQL, FTP, email accounts, etc. I can install and run pretty much any php- or java-based package I want to. The package I use is about $115/year by the year. It's a little more by the month. All the top-tier hosts will have similar packages.
 
VPS hosting solutions are on a big rise it seems.. I'm debating switching to Slicehost's lowest price plan ($20/mo). But with a virtual server you'd be looking at a complete configuration of everything yourself. Shared hosting will most likely get the job done for small things and can handle most of the common flavors of code/DB. Shared accounts can be had for as little as $5/mo for a few places worth getting hosting from.

As far as what you'd need to know?
for VPS you'd need to know mostly everything about securely configuring a server as most of it will be open. However there are a ton of guides and step by step instructions on configuring mostly everything (hooray, OSS). For a shared hosting environment, I wouldn't expect amazing performance at peak hours, because there will be other people on the same server sharing the CPU/RAM/Bandwidth. But, this solution is also pre-configured and ready to go, and will hopefully provide cPanel or a custom interface for configuring it further.
 
Hmm.. you've certainly given me food for thought. (I've not hear of cPanel before, I'll look into it) At first glance, I think I like the idea of using a virtual server. That's more in line with what I'm familiar with. (But cost IS a factor for me)

What hosts are you using guys? I had a look a Slicehost and it has caught my interest.

Also, how do you take bandwidth into consideration ? Running on a LAN it's never been an issue. Do I just take the lowest option, for starters ? What might happen if I exceed the bandwidth ? Will they cut me out, or will I get some grace time ?

I'm toying with the idea of running Redmine on my host, so whatever option I take, I'll need Ruby on Rails support.

-chronodekar

OP EDIT/UPDATE :
I should mention, I have experience setting up Linux (ubuntu) boxes for hosting web-pages and version control repositories on LAN networks.
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It all depends on how involved you want to be with your own hosting.

You can get a cheap VPS(Virtual private server) for under $20/month and do whatever you want with it as long as you follow the ToS. Lot's of companies forbid IRC/Torrents, but it should be spelled out exactly what you can and can not do with it.

You can also just get some space from a reseller and not have to worry about managing the server.
 
I used Steadcom for a little over a year for a mid level VPS for torrentflux. Now I'm with Interserver with a dedicated server for torrentflux. Steadcom was an absolutely awsome company, bent over backwards to help me in every way for free. Interserver has been pretty good, but it's still pretty early to judge, only going on two months with them now.
 
Pick up a linux VPS, and throw on ISPconfig or something that will let you easily work/navigate your mysql,php,apache, etc, etc.

I think kloxo is still decent too.
http://www.lxlabs.com/software/kloxo/


unless you want to CLI everything, they go for it 😛. Those are just nice little 'host in a box' type of applications.

A lesser cPanel, unless you can afford a VPS cPanel license on top of it (which would make your life A LOT easier, if you are not very good with CLI).
 
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