Caporegime
Hi all,
is it legal to run a web hosting business from home on 100mb virgin media 'home' broadband?
is it legal to run a web hosting business from home on 100mb virgin media 'home' broadband?
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Soldato
It is on their Business broadband package....
More to the point, why do you want to do this when hosting costs are something like a couple of quad a month ?
More to the point, why do you want to do this when hosting costs are something like a couple of quad a month ?
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I think that VM block serving from ports 80 and 25 as well as some others. I'd need to double check, but I'm sure that's what I found when I looked into it.
Soldato
I was hosting for many years until I took it all down last year - I doubt they block ports
"Web hosting business" implies that you will be selling hosting services to other people? It's probably not illegal but VM probably won't like it not to mention it's just a bad idea in general.
ok thanks, im not 'seriously' considering this, its just another idea.
what other money making things can a rack of old xeon server blades be used for?
(approximately 28 solo core xeons @ 2.7ghz and 56gb of DDR...)
what other money making things can a rack of old xeon server blades be used for?
(approximately 28 solo core xeons @ 2.7ghz and 56gb of DDR...)
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Looking into it, they do shape traffic for SMTP, due to malware infestations. You'd not have much of a problem otherwise, however, you would fall foul of the terms and conditions which state:
Using the Services
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h. Use any services (including, but not limited to, phone services) for commercial or business purposes;
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I think that I may stop hosting my website for £3.30 p/m and bring it 'in house'. You can do something rather clever if you use the free DynDNS type services. To get a domain name to dynamically follow you, use the DynDNS domain as a CNAME for your main domain to follow your home IP address.
Thus you don't need to set up a paid for DynDNS account.
http://shop.virginmedia.com/the-legal-stuff/terms-and-conditions-for-cable-services.html#responsible link to the terms and conditions page on VM's site
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Not a lot, on the power alone it'd be hard to compete for things like webhosting.
Render farm perhaps, but again i'm sure there are render farm services out there which are running on much more modern/efficient hardware so can be done much more cheaply.
ok so, not buying in the first place/selling that kind of array would be the logical answer then?
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Well unless you want to use it for a learning lab then yeah thats probably your best course of action.
You could use it to learn about clustering and whatnot, but even then it's probably best to just simulate a cluster in lots of VMs
You could use it to learn about clustering and whatnot, but even then it's probably best to just simulate a cluster in lots of VMs
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The amount that it costs to run a server from home you may swell purchase a reseller server.
Yeah, power costs make it unfeasible to run older hardware from home, it's all about power per watt. It costs roughly £1/Watt/Year, double that if you need air con. You'd struggle to sell enough hosting to cover the costs.
You could probably get a brand new 2 socket, 16 thread Xeon server with equivalent power to those 28 oldies and it would pay for itself in 6 months just from power savings.
You could probably get a brand new 2 socket, 16 thread Xeon server with equivalent power to those 28 oldies and it would pay for itself in 6 months just from power savings.
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unless you have a machine on 24/7 anyway it will cost you more in power....
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If you reference your home IP via a cname then all other DNS entries will be ignored. So its very limiting and exactly why DYNDNS has paid for services.
So if you had the following (as per your example)
www.mywebsite.com CNAME me.homeip.net
mail.mywebsite.com ARecord 222.222.222.222
mail.mywebsite.com MX 10
All DNS providers will ignore anything other than the root CNAME reference. So you will need to host everything via that single cname which isn't very clever, nor usable.