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I am a freshman Computer Science student. I would appreciate if some of you guys could help me understand the process of creating a web hosting service and explain how it works. Thank You. This question is my first; if I made mistakes, I look forward to positive criticism.
Although this is a simple and straightforward question, the answer can be far from it. There are several different categories of a web hosting service. Your typical "Godaddy, HostGator, Bluehost" shared web hosting service is the most common one, but there are also Amazon's AWS or Digital Ocean that focus on Virtual Private Servers and there are also web hosting companies with a strong added value such as a website builder (like Squarespace, Weebly or Wix).
A web hosting is often (especially shared hosting) combined with a powerful control panel (cPanel and Plesk have most users) which allow you to create additional addon domains, subdomains, email addresses, MySQL databases, FTP accounts and many other simple and complex features. It goes so far that cPanel combined with Fantastico offers automatic (few clicks) Wordpress and Joomla installation among many CMS systems. No need to manually upload files, create databases, etc.
If you are looking to start a shared web hosting business yourself, you have to go one level above. For example, above cPanel is WHM. You can look at WHM like a very powerful software that helps you monitor active processes on servers, create new web hosting resellers, new web hosting accounts, track CPU activity and many other functions. Now account creation, termination and suspending is easier and almost automated with additional systems like WHMCS.
WHMCS is an entirely different system that is installed on a single domain on a server. WHMCS besides from account creation and termination allows web hosting clients to open support tickets, register domain names, purchase and automatically create web hosting accounts, and manage their account in general. In WHMCS, you cannot create email address, subdomains and other cPanel functionality.
With web hosting, there are several products and services that go hand in hand. I've already mentioned website builders, Content Management Systems and domain names. But there are also SSL certificates, various analytics services, web shops and other products that are installed on millions of websites.
When you are managing a server that offers shared hosting, dedicated hosting or reseller hosting you need to pay attention to load averages (CPU usage), downtime (99.99%) email blacklisting, hacks, phishing attempts, virus injections, holes in various widgets installed on websites and other threats that come your way on a daily basis.
This is just scratching the surface, but it's a step in a right direction in understanding the overview of a small web hosting company.
You want to become a web host?
Just check out which all hosting services you want to provide
Research about Shared hosting, VPS hosting, Reseller hosting
check which all latest technologies can be used to create these services.
study how to setup and handle the activities.
web hosting is easy to create,
you need some requirement,
first is hardware requirement,
second is proper ISP bandwidth
you need more uploading speed again downloading speed,
because if request come out to your server service and all page or data send to client,
so require high uploading speed,
first thing is hardware requirement.
you need proper storage device,
with auto backup system,
do you need good ram capacity,
if your system is low speed all clients face slow speed,
in this case bandwidth not work,
Yara ISP provide 1gbps speed but your system process data only 200 MB to 300 MB so that all data useless
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Currently i am trying to learn various Services of Amazon web services and Microsoft windows azure like Amazon sns,Amazon Storage,amazon Search.
I am having some question in my mind that why now a days cloud platforms are getting so popular than old traditional approach like previously we were storing our files(img,txt,.doc etc) in our web application project only but now adays some web application are storing their files on amazon storage or on azure storage.
What is the benefits of storing files and folders over cloud platform ??
Next why amazon search or azure search is preferred as when they were
not available searching was done and amazon and azure search are not
freely availabale??
Now if we talk about push notification then why to use amazon or azure
push notification if we can easily send notification through codes
that are available on internet??
I general i just want to know that why now a days web application are using more cloud platforms(Azure or amazon) even though they are costly??
Can anybody explain me this with some details??
Among the many reasons, the most important and common ones I can think of are:
High Availability - When you manage your own services, there is always an operational challenge of ensuring that they do not go down i.e, crash. This may cause a downtime to your application or even data loss depending on the situation. The cloud services you have mentioned, offer reliable solutions that guarantee maximum up time and data safety (by backup, for example). They often replicate your data across multiple servers, so that even if one of their servers are down, you do not loose any data.
Ease of use - Cloud services make it very easy to use a specific service by providing detailed documentation and client libraries to use their services. The dashboard or console of many cloud services are often user friendly and do not require extensive technical background to use. You could deploy a Hadoop cluster in Google Compute Engine in less than a minute, for instance. They offer many pre-built solutions which you can take advantage of.
Auto-Scale - Many cloud services nowadays are designed to scale automatically. The are built to scale automatically with increasing traffic. You do not have to worry about the traffic or application load.
Security - Cloud services are secure. They offer sophisticated security solutions using which, you can secure your service from being misused.
Cost - Trying to host your own services require extensive resources like high end servers, dedicated system administrators, good network connectivity etc. Cloud services are quite cheap these days.
Of course you could solve these problems yourself, but smaller organizations often do not prefer to do so because of the operational overhead. It would take more time and resources to reach a stage where your solution is both reliable and functional. People would often prefer to work on the actual problem their application is trying to solve and abstract away most operational problems which cloud services readily offer.
p.s. These are some opinions from an early stage startup perspective.
Hopefully my question is in the right forum here. I've just checked out the pricing model of windows azure and checked out the different configuration options:
http://www.windowsazure.com/de-de/pricing/calculator/
I have been working as a developer for almost two years now and worked a lot with IIS and the WPF technology. As a little private project I checked out HTML 5 and JS with MVC4 Web API and wondered what azure configuration I'd need to host a MVC 4 Web API project. Would it be rather a virtual machine or a full calculator? What benefits grants one over another?
I am going to start my studies soon, so I'd like the cheapest I can possibly get. I won't use it a lot (mainly for testing reasons), as well I think there won't be too much traffic either. Would a virtual machine also include the possibility of using IIS?
Could I also run a MVC project with something else than VM/full calculator?
And what would happen if for some reason my traffic just explodes? Would my services just be shut down until I increase the power of my machine? Or would I just get a huge bill and be surprised quite a lot?
Use websites.
You can start with 10 Web Sites absolutely free! So this is the cheapest. And it certainly supports MVC4 Web API.
For starter you can get a 3 month trial with enough credits to start. By default you'll have a spending limit on your account. This mean if you start to get too much traffic your services will shut down and you won't have to pay any extra. I think you can configure how much you are willing to pay but I never tried, it is still the default which is 0$.
You should start with Shared Web Sites and move to reserved instance, VM or web role later if you ever need to scale up or out.
I have started work on a game project which is expected to have a very high load on the servers.
My original plan was going with a general main server which hosts general game data and using a collection of servers hosting a node (or game world) server, being balanced with more CPU/network intensive worlds being hosted in less numbers on the machine.
Now I was wondering how it's best for me to set up the actual servers. Should I go with a cloud like Microsoft Azure, should I host it all myself on own bought hardware or should I use dedicated hosting from some hosting company?
Windows Azure actually has a Toolkit for Social Games which might provide some good guidance.
https://github.com/WindowsAzure-Toolkits/wa-toolkit-games
On Github the architecture section might also help you think about an Azure Solution
https://github.com/WindowsAzure-Toolkits/wa-toolkit-games/wiki/architecture
Re: Servers, the cloud is a perfect match for this workload/use case, you can grow quickly or fail fast depending on how successful you are and only ever pay for what you use. Azure has a IaaS and PasS offering which should meet all your needs (inc Windows and Linux on IaaS)
Well I believe now days people are engaged in social games; I believe you would be doing the same.
unsure about the development environment I suggest you to look at the Game Hosting by amazon.. It could be somewhat costlier but better then to have your own provided it meet all your needs.
You can also check gamersisle who allows you to rent game server based on your wish so you can rent more when you feel you are hitting client counts.
Happy game development.
P.S :- I always wonder how people build game.. just learning how? ;)
I'd like to start a free budget/personal finance site and will need plenty of horsepower and storage. I'm definitely a nubee, so how does one get started in terms of hardware infrastructure? Do I need to get a dedicated IP from my ISP and obtain my own servers? Do I go with amazon or Sql Server Data Services/Azure or something like that? Is the latter services free or a discount offering available to non-profit/free services such as the budget/personal finance site I'm looking to start?
If you don't mind writing your web application in python, then I's suggest using Google App Engine. See: What Is Google App Engine?
What I like to do when I have new ideas for a site is to find an inexpensive hosting solution ($10 per month). This allows me to test the idea and see if the site is going to be successful. If it is a flop, I haven't wasted much money and if it is successful I can upgrade to better hosting (dedicated server).
There are many hosting options available and several of them have great tools such as an online SQL Server management studio. Your other option would be to host it yourself if you are prepared to deal with firewall issues, backups, storage, etc.
Whether it is feasible to DIY varies a lot by country...if you have a decent broadband connection with a fixed IP this can be the cheapest route to play around with first, especially if you need an awful lot of storage.
Note however that many fast broadband connections are only fast for downloads - when you're running a server, the speed your users will see is the upload speed, which is usually a lot less. Also, you'll need to do your own admin and backup etc.
Apart from this most hosting options have a price tag on top, varying from virtual hosts (sharing a real machine), to colocation (your machine in somebody's data center), to cloud services like amazon et al (which have a good scaling ability)- and you will need to shop around for the software stack and hardware features you really need.
There's really two ways to answer this question, what differentiates them is budget.
One is to properly design this solution, prototype it, benchmark the prototype, extrapolate anticipated user load, add overhead and scale accordingly. This takes time, costs but gives you a supportable solution that serves your customers well.
The other is to just give something, anything a go and fix the problems as they come along. This is quicker and cheaper but might be a headache for a while and might p*** off your customers.
Basically it comes down to budget.
Best of luck.
I recently bought a new web server 2008 for our company and require a FTP Hosting site that allows customers to upload files and host websites from our server, The site must have the shopping basket / Monthly rates built in.
If I purchased the correct template that is designed for hosting, How do I get it to work with the web server independently ? (e.g. Creating sub domains, user directories, so on)
The services should be exactly like as this link : https://www.godaddy.com
I have all the equipment & software
How do I do this ?
I don't mean to cause offense, but it sounds like you're way in over your head here.
From the sound of it, hosting websites isn't your company's primary business. If you're the guy in charge of setting up a hosting service, and you're on here asking "how do I set up a GoDaddy clone?", the end result is going to be very upset customers.
Stick to your core competencies, or at least hire a professional who has set this sort of thing up before.
You spend a lot of time and money developing software that provides that functionality in a manner that a potential customer would go somewhere else.
You can install software like CPanel and others that make managing server functionality a lot easier. You can try third party shopping basket software but you may find that it is too generic for your specific needs, and again there will be integration software development to do anyway.