Website server business????

Question

i am wanting to start a web design and web hosting business, for now it will be run from home? what should i know b4 i start? i have red up on how to set up a home web site server and that. any pointers or ideas welcome thank you

Answer 1

You must have a large hard disk capacity and interruptible power source.  

Answer 2

a strong internet connection with PLENTY of bandwith  

Answer 3

what measures have u taken :-

1. if your HDD crashes

2. what RAID configuration have u deploied.

3. what type of storage you have NAS or SAN ??

4. u must have a good internet connection.

5. what power backup u have if the electricity in not available for 5 days

7. what if the net connectivity is unavailable from your ISP for 5 days.

8. what if the entire setup gets on fire or flood or any disaster like 9/11

     do u have any disaster recovery site to countinue your business ?

10. what is the total uptime can u gurantee to ur customers ??

Answer 4

http://ciscotutorials.info/

Answer 5

firstly u must know that u have to attract people to ure website so you can add colour and dont put too much writing in one block otherwise people dont want to read it. staradvertising it to ure friends and send it round to people so that more people come. add fun things to ure web site and remember dont add things theìat flash u and down otherwise people think that it is a site which contains viruses.

hope that i helped!!!   :)

Answer 6

You want to create a business where you'll host web sites in your home? I don't see how that could possibly work.

The problem is that for every web page your web servers serve, you will have to carry the request to your house and the response from your house. Someone who locates their web server in a building that's already lit won't have to do that.

You will have to pass the cost of carrying everything over your local loop to your customers. I don't see how you could compete doing that.

However, you can certainly design web sites in your home and you can certainly upload them to servers from your home. You just can't put the servers in your home. The cost of getting data to and from the servers would kill you.

For example, the cost of 100Mbps at a lit building is about $800-$3,000 per month. The cost of 100Mbps at a home is about $6,000-$20,000/mo.

And if you only have a single line to your house, it will be a single point of failure for your customers. So hosting anything business-critical would be impossible. (Do you have backup power?)

Answer 7

The best way for you to do this is LEASE a dedicated server at a data center!  You can still host, you can still design, but you will be able to have high capacity redundant lines and backup power without having to buy all that for your home!

Dedicated servers in a data center, or even a co-located server at a data center, will allow you to fully control the server while still hosting without you having the thousands of up front expense to do this at home!

There are several good data centers around and the costs of putting a server into one of those starts at a very affordable price in comparison to the costs of doing this at home. Once your business begins to grow you can add redundant lines and redundant power to your "office" and start to host in house!

Just do some research and I think you will find this is the correct and least expensive method to start your business.