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Bourd · 11-17-2003, 11:44 AM

**First of all, please don't spam me with your hosting services, I'm looking for advice here! I will contact you when I'm ready!**

This is my first experience with a pay host. I'd like to get a dedicated server for a 20k visitors/day (and growing) thumb preview tgp. I need around 250 gig/month but I also want to host a few galleries and sites on it... So I guess 500 gigs/month or so should be fine. Here's a few questions for you...

1. What should I be looking for to make it a fast server. Is 512mb RAM enough? I was looking at an "Intel Pentium 4, 2.0" 7200RPM. Should I go with 1GB RAM?

2. What is Cogent bandwidth? What is level 3 bandwidth?

3. Unmanaged servers are affordable but I've only installed a few php, mySQL and CGI scrpits on Revshare hosting. Do you think I could set up an unmanaged dedicated server by myself, just by reading and learning on forums? I only want to set up thumbnail preview scripts and other basic scripts...

4. What do you recommend (easier to configure and general use):
Plesk 6.0
Ensim Pro 250
cPanel
Plesk 5.0
Ensim Basic
Red Hat 9
Red Hat 7.3

Any answers and advices are appreciated... Thanks!

11-17-2003, 11:44 AM
Bourd Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Quebec city Posts: 88	About Hosting... First of all, please don't spam me with your hosting services, I'm looking for advice here! I will contact you when I'm ready! This is my first experience with a pay host. I'd like to get a dedicated server for a 20k visitors/day (and growing) thumb preview tgp. I need around 250 gig/month but I also want to host a few galleries and sites on it... So I guess 500 gigs/month or so should be fine. Here's a few questions for you... 1. What should I be looking for to make it a fast server. Is 512mb RAM enough? I was looking at an "Intel Pentium 4, 2.0" 7200RPM. Should I go with 1GB RAM? 2. What is Cogent bandwidth? What is level 3 bandwidth? 3. Unmanaged servers are affordable but I've only installed a few php, mySQL and CGI scrpits on Revshare hosting. Do you think I could set up an unmanaged dedicated server by myself, just by reading and learning on forums? I only want to set up thumbnail preview scripts and other basic scripts... 4. What do you recommend (easier to configure and general use): Plesk 6.0 Ensim Pro 250 cPanel Plesk 5.0 Ensim Basic Red Hat 9 Red Hat 7.3 Any answers and advices are appreciated... Thanks!