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What are the necessities for creating your own web hosting server? I currently have 3 Dell Poweredge dedicated servers I want to use them for hosting my site instead of Webs. I also have a switch, firewall, and I might be getting a packetshaper, but what software and such would I need to host a site. I know Apache and mySQL and such can go into it but is that necessary? Thanks in advance.
 
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You need some sort of a server and whatever back end support your site needs. IIS, Apache are the top ones. You may not need SQL depending on what the site is, and you may need other additional functions. Do you have a logon page? Need code for that. Do you have forms, email, etc..? All need to be setup.

I also suggest you do a bit of research on this as you are likely to just open up your network to attacks if you don't configure things properly. Just opening up some ports and setting up the server to run is not good enough. Find a few books on setting up a web server, they will cover security.
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You need some sort of a server and whatever back end support your site needs. IIS, Apache are the top ones. You may not need SQL depending on what the site is, and you may need other additional functions. Do you have a logon page? Need code for that. Do you have forms, email, etc..? All need to be setup.

I also suggest you do a bit of research on this as you are likely to just open up your network to attacks if you don't configure things properly. Just opening up some ports and setting up the server to run is not good enough. Find a few books on setting up a web server, they will cover security.
 
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Alabalcho

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First of all, you need an ISP plan which will let you host servers. Most consumer-level ISP plans do not provision for that. Things to look for in from your ISP are:
- fixed IP addresses (more probably, you will need a pool of them)
- guaranteed bandwidth, both down- and up-stream
- support contract (you will want to talk to a person when the kids next door decide to play DDoS games)

And of course - you need a plan how you will raise the money you will need to pay for all that. Hardware costs would be least of your problems.
 
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