dreamwest Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 What would it take to set up my own server? Apart from security issues in doing it , i still want to give it a go. I have a couple of low traffic sites (300 - 400 visitors/day) that i can test it on I have alot of content on my pay sites and will be seriously pissed if the host shut down or deleted my account because of high traffic load or some other clause. Ive had this before even on a vps - their reason too much bandwidth within a 2 hour period Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFMaBiSmAd Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Set up your own server where? You will still have bandwidth limits set by the provider and by how much bandwidth you are paying for. VPS is your own server. The next step up is a dedicated server either located on your site (using your ISP's bandwidth) or collocated in a data center (using the amount of bandwidth you have leased from the data center.) Doing this would help with site performance issues, but does not directly have anything to do with exceeding bandwidth limits. If you have a dedicated server and repeatedly exceed the bandwidth limit you are paying for, your connection would be disabled as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 You could find a host that doesn't shut you off when exceeding your bandwidth limit, but rather charges you an overage fee. I'm charged £0.25/GB for instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 You could find a host that doesn't shut you off when exceeding your bandwidth limit, but rather charges you an overage fee. I'm charged £0.25/GB for instance. Just of curiosity, does it dynamically charge you up to X GB, or does it just keep on going? What if you got Google bombed or the site were attacked or something? @dreamwest: As already mentioned, you would still have bandwidth problems. You don't plan on hosting it at your house, do you? "I have alot of content on my pay sites and will be seriously pissed if the host shut down or deleted my account because of high traffic load or some other clause. Ive had this before even on a vps - their reason too much bandwidth within a 2 hour period" In a 2 hour period? That's lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 You could find a host that doesn't shut you off when exceeding your bandwidth limit, but rather charges you an overage fee. I'm charged £0.25/GB for instance. Just of curiosity, does it dynamically charge you up to X GB, or does it just keep on going? What if you got Google bombed or the site were attacked or something? I've got 450 GB/month, so if I one month use e.g. 1000 GB then I'll get charged (1000-450) * £.25 = £137.5 (ex VAT @ 15%). And of course, if I would happen to use ∞ GB then I'll get charged £∞. It will keep on going indefinitely, but it's likely that if I was DDoSed that they would suspend my account because it would use other resources as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Ahhhh yeah, didn't think about other resources. I was just curious if perhaps they cut it off after you went 100GB over or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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