Server for web hosting and emails

[Outback Dingo]

sounds like your probably better of with a 20$ a month virtual machine
on a public ip at a real hosting company

usualy you can do whatever you want in a vm with root access, rootbsd
is a good vps provider for FreeBSD vms

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Mitch MRC <mitch_mrc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The intention is to move from the hosting company to my own server with 3-4
> domains, due to a lack of options.
> Basically I need the web, mails and the possibility to use other languages
> and DBs than the ones provided by the hosting servers, where any small
> request for new stuff, costs.
>
> M
>
> On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 12:30:20 AM GMT+2, Mitch MRC via
> freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks again. Lots of things to think about.Best,Mircea
>     On Sunday, November 12, 2017, 4:46:07 PM GMT+2, Ernie Luzar
> <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mitch MRC via freebsd-questions wrote:
>> Thank you for your replies.Is it possible to make it with dynamic IP from
>> the ISP? Or i should ask for a fixed IP?
>> Mircea
>>
>
> Just so you know about all your options.
> Yes it is possible to use a dynamic ip address.
> It's all a matter of risk.
>
> In todays market of phone companies and cable TV providers acting as
> ISP's the chance of then changing your assigned dynamic IP address is
> very low. I have had the same dynamic IP address from my TV cable ISP
> for 10+ years.
>
> To reduce the risk to zero you can have your fqdn registered with one of
> the many "dynamic DNS" service providers. You then run a daemon on your
> host that watches your IP address and if it changes automatically sends
> a update to your "dynamic DNS" service provider changing your fqdn to
> point to the new IP address. Down time is less than 5 minutes.
>
> But your missing the big picture problem.
>
> Normally ISP's sell 2 account types, home users who get a single dynamic
> IP address with some max bandwidth per month and the business account
> who gets a group of static ip addresses and have bandwidth usage groups
> that cost more per month as bandwidth usage increases as more hosting
> customers are added.
>
> As I read this thread I see you are thinking about running a home based
> hosting service. A very small scale environment would work but if your
> bandwidth exceeds the max for a home user account your ISP may stop
> serving your account until the next month. Or even worse they may
> determine that you are abusing your home account contract and terminate
> your service all together. This will really put a negative turn on your
> home hosting service and paying customers will leave you asap.
>
> There are other considerations for a 24/7 service, like
> UPS and or a gas powered electric generator
> redundancy of computers and network controllers
> solid state hard drives and the list goes on.
>
> If your intention is something to play with at home so you can learn
> about how things go together, then no problem. If this is a prelude to a
> for profit hosting service then you better have very deep pockets
> because this is going to cost a lot of up front money to do it right.
>
> Maybe you should check into the affiliate program of many existing
> hosting companies. For a price you get a branded hosting front end that
> looks & feel like a real hosting service, but in reality your just
> selling services for the downstream provider.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
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