[kwlug-disc] Website hosting

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> No, I'm not paying that much.. I'll have to dig up the bills to be sure,
> but I'm thinking it's around $100/year per site.
>

That is as cheap as it gets, at $8.3 a month.


> General Linux sysadmin tasks are no problem, I've just never hosted from
> my house before.  Should I build a VM to run these on?  What about DNS?  I
> use DynDNS for my own machines (for remoting in) but would I be able to use
> my existing website names with them?  As you can see, it's n00b questions
> here... but I certainly look forwarding to learning about this stuff.
>

I recommend against hosting it from your house. Your ISP may block web or
mail traffic, at their discretion. Also, you "own" the server if a disk
blows up or power goes out. You are better off someone in a data centre
doing these things for you.

What I was recommending is getting a VPS and installing the LAMP stack on
it. But the minimum for a proper VPS is $20 at Linode. Others can be
cheaper, but not as cheap as $8 a month.
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