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I always wanted to know this...

What If I wanted to set up my own servers at my house to start a web hosting business.

What internet connection would I need?

And who to get it from? I live in the United States, Ohio.

I have 3 Dell Rack Servers one of them has 4 GB of ram and the other 2 have 512MB each and one of them has 160GB Hardrive and the one with 4GB of ram has a 2x250GB Hardrive the third server only has a hardrive of 80GB.

I wanted to set them up start hosting sites but I don't know what type of internet connection to use.

That way my team and I wouldn't have to rent servers from other datacenters.

Can anyone answer these questions?

Thanks,

Brad Miller
Hostingder Support Team.

 

Well it depends on for what purpose u need the connection for are u going to sell hosting to others or just use it for ur own use.. how much bandwith are u going to consume ?

 

I'm looking to sell web hosting to others and I don't know how much bandwidth I would use maybe alot since I'm going to be selling hosting accounts.

 

Well you will need minimum of 10Mbps connection to start with later on maybe you will need to upgrade to a better one if possible its better to get a 100Mbps connection connected to the server also you will need uninterupted electricity and make sure servers dont over heat

 

Do you have any Idea how much that Internet connection costs?

 

you have to enuqire about that from your local ISP

 

Thank you so much Bohra for your answers,

 

Like Bohra says, you will need a 10 Mbps connection, with atleast 2 static IPs to create nameservers. Using the ISPs nameservers isnt always a good idea. Not many ISPs provide more than 1 static IP to their users, unless you get something like a leased line.

 

Yes rite its better u collocate ur server with some data center nearby im sure there are many in the place u live

 

Can I place my servers in some Datacenter near by so they can provide the internet and power? And I'll pay a monthly price?

 

yes thats called server collocation

 

Do you have an Idea what they would cost me for 3 servers?

 

Wow wow Dude I made a quick search on google this company wants 1,350.00 /month.

That's way too much money to pay. I better off renting dedicated servers if I have to pay that much to get my own servers running.

 

How far is kanas city ?

See http://www.joesdatacenter.com/colocation.html

Edit

Check this too http://dev.fdcservers.net/Services/Colocation/MeteredColocation