Should I Buy A Dedicated Server?
For the past few days, I’ve been thinking of buying myself a dedicated server. First, I got a lot of websites to host and maintain. I just feel that the shared environment is not enough for me. Actually, I just filed a ticket reporting an abuse on the shared server I’m hosted on because the CPU use is above normal, which made my sites load slowly. I got my reseller right now and I’m hosting a couple of websites and blogs. I think I host more 10 websites (excluding this one).
Aside of hosting the websites I own, I’m also planning to get serious with my hosting business, BrinkNotes Hosting. I would be staying at home more often than before for I’m studying at UP Open University in distance education mode. Getting serious with my hosting business would also give a little income to be able to support myself.
I really want a dedicated server. But there are several things I need to consider before buying a dedicated server.
MONEY. My first concern in buying a dedicated server is where to get the money to pay for the monthly expenses of the server. The dedicated server would cost me around $95 (approx. Php 4,000) per month. The monthly fee includes the prices of the upgrades I want on my dedicated server like additional hard drive for back-ups, additional bandwidth and additional RAM. I told my mom about it and I think she’s interested on supporting a portion of the monthly expense. The monthly fee of a reseller plan is quite far from the monthly fee of a dedicated server. Where do I get that big amount of money?
SERVER LOAD. If ever I get a dedicated server, it would host all the websites I own or co-manage and the rest of the space would go to my future company. I am just worried if the dedicated server I would be buying can handle all the websites that I would be hosting in the future.
And other things I don’t include in here anymore.
The dedicated server I am playing to buy has the following specifications:
- Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 80GB HDD
- 1000GB Monthly Bandwidth
I think buying a Virtual Private Server is a great idea to test the waters. The thing about buying a VPS is that the allotted disk space and bandwidth is lower to that of a shared / reseller plan.
So that got me thinking! WHAT SHALL I DO?
Matt :
Date: May 30, 2008 @ 12:05 pm
Money always seems to be a big issue with a dedicated server.
I want dedicated too but atm I currently can’t afford it due to loans and other bills.
GL with your business and I hope it all works out for you.
Jeric :
Date: May 30, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Thanks for dropping by my site, Matt! I do hope everything works fine with my business. I’m actually excited.