Hi, What do you people think about this VPS hosting service: http://www.webhostingpad.com/vps-package.html Please also tell me if there are better ones! I want to start my own small hosting company.
Well I want to start my own small, web hosting company! Need near 500 GB RAM, 2 GB RAM, Unlimited Domains, Full Root Access, Reseller Accounts, FFmpeg Pre-installed, PHPmotion Pre-installed, should be quality hosting and cheap! Also recommend me what is really required to start a good small hosting company! Regards
Looks like a fairly good plan.... for the price. I didn't see that they had much of a support package..if any. I Personally am a Plesk man, though I relise that CPanel is probably the most popular and that's what they offer. You want to know...what kind of monitoring is included, and firewalls etc, and of back-up capabilities. OH...& Max Bandwidth: 3 Mbps (HUGE) is OK but not Huge.
well, this web hosting pad is giving a better VPS hosting than godady! Am I right? Because just make the comparison, and tell me!
Forget that VPS, it's only got a 3Mbps uplink, if you are planning on FFmpeg then that means video and that can suck up bandwidth depending on the number of viewers at any one time. For shared hosting server I'd personally be looking at a full dedicated server, 100Mbps uplink, 2GB RAM or more, RAID1, RAID10 or RAID5, cPanel and full daily offsite backups. If you are hosting lots of dynamic sites then R1Soft comes into it's own as you can take backups every 60 minutes or whatever you choose. As you are asking these questions I'm going say you need to find yourself a server management company to go with it. You are playing with peoples businesses and livelihoods so you better be pretty dam sure you know what you are doing or have the resources in place to deal with issues as and when they arise. 2GB+ RAM - More and more sites are dynamic these days and these all use MySQL and MySQL loves RAM. RAID - So when a disk fails you don't have to reload the OS, reconfigure it, restore backups all of which takes significantly longer than just swapping a failed drive and rebuilding the array while the server continue to serve up your clients sites. I'd go with hardware over software RAID. Offsite daily backups - Should be a no brainer, things break, people delete files, bad things can happen, so taking backups allows you to restore a working system. Taking them offsite rather than a spare drive in the server means that if the server is wiped off the face of the planet you can still restore your backups and your customers just loose a days data. Going to an R1Soft CDP setup (or equivalent) allows high frequency backups which in the case of people running interactive sites e.g. forums or stores, results in less lost posts or orders, should you need to restore a backup. You also want your server to have bandwidth from multiple carriers rather than just one as that way if a carrier fails there's a better chance that the server stays online. You'll need monitoring systems which auto SMS you if the server fails, but none of the ping only rubbish, you need a system which issues a request against the server that then tests MySQL, Apache etc, http://hyperspin.com/ will do that but you need to create scripts on the server. You'll need an SSL certificate for cPanel so that people don't get the Firefox/IE warnings as they try and login over https. You need a firewall of some type configured properly. You'll want your site hosted on a different server to the one with your clients, that way if something happens to a client server they can still get to your support and status pages to find out what's happening. If you're planning on having multiple servers then I suggest you look at cPanel DNS only, you can install it on 2 or more servers spread about the world then all your web servers can be clustered with them. It makes it very easy to move accounts between servers and so on.
You are playing with peoples businesses and livelihoods so you better be pretty dam sure you know what you are doing or have the resources in place to deal with issues as and when they arise. Code (markup): all wannabe hosting company should underline this... you should reconsider if you want using vps to build hosting company... although you get full root access and etc, vps is still at a shared environment..