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Re: [LUG] Small Business Web Server

 

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Gibbs wrote:

I work for a small online business (only 2 of us) and we're looking to get a reasonably priced server. At the moment we have lots of projects (websites etc) running from my PC and it's getting very slow. We also have to keep the PC online 24/7 which is a nuissance.

Can anyone recommend a decent place to find servers? As it's a small business I think a small and cheap server should suffice initially but I really don't know where to start. In case anyone is wondering the server will be used locally so it's not for hosting purposes etc.

Any help or suggestions much appreciated!

I guess it depends on how "techie" you are ... ie. would you be prepared to build one and install Linux on it yourself, or are you looking for a pre-packaged box to plug in and go?

If the latter, them maybe a NAS type box might be an easy answer - if it's just for storing data on.

But if you want to use it to develop & test sites locally, then maybe you want something as close to your externally hosted service as possible? (In which case, you might have to build if yourself - or at least install it)

Or if that's what you want, there are people on the list who specialise in building such servers - and a few who'll help you with backups too - please do keep backups of some sort!)

Or go down the pre-built route from a big name - you might possibly get better support that way, but it comes at a price!

Gordon

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