From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 22 22:22:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4C637B407 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (rapunzel.magpage.com [216.155.50.98]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7N5MD400901; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:22:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B8492C5.50136B6D@magpage.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 01:21:09 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier Organization: Magpage Internet Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Hilgeman Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Starting a Web Hosting Company References: <5D90F61EB6FDD411836500508B137F1AA3EE2A@mailsvr.ecx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RRT-Status: UNKNOWN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: > > Hi, > I've been considering starting my own, small, web hosting business using > FreeBSD. So far I have a short list of essential items: > Name Server (primary and secondary) > Mail Server > Machine to Host Files (File Server) > > Now, I know I can host some of these items on the same machine, like mail > and file server. However, I am not clear on whether or not I should host the > name servers on the same machine as well. I'm intending to start out small > and cheap until I begin receiving some revenue, at which point I can upgrade > and invest more into the servers. Now, does anyone have good tips on this > topic? Am I missing anything on my list? > if you wanna start real small one machine will be enough. just collocate it at an isp and usually they'll handle dn., mail, etc... a good portion of the servers collocated with the isp I work for are for smaller web hosting providers. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message