What hardware and software is your website running on?

[Scott]

Hey, folks!

The premise of this thread is that I'm running my website on a dedicated server in my living room, and I'd like to figure out just how much a similar (professional) hosting plan might cost. Basically, I want to know how much I'm saving and how much it's going to cost when I have to upgrade.

For the curious:
2.8 GHz Core Duo (I think... it's either dual-core or dual-processor with single cores)
1GB RAM
10/100Mbit NIC
100Mbit connection... shared among ~4,000 students
LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) + Wordpress 2.1

The site just launched on April 1st, so I don't have much of a measure of traffic, but I'm pretty sure the server hasn't even flinched.

So, I have three questions:

1) What's your hardware/software configuration?
2) How much does your hosting plan cost (and who's it with)?
3) How much traffic is hitting your website, and how well does it hold up?

Thanks in advance for your input!

[Scott]

*hears crickets*

Well, that's nice. Anyway, I did a bit of research, and it seems that similar hosting plans to my server-in-living-room situation would cost anywhere from $100 to $250 per month! It makes me wonder how a high-traffic non-profit website could ever sustain itself...

[tobyhede]

Here at work we have some massive Dual Xeon servers with maxed out RAM and RAID setups that are about $500 a month. We run several separate machine images on each box though - not sure, but think we run about 7 distinct servers per machine. W have a pretty complex architecture and setup though.

If you can keep your machine running and you have the connection, hosting yourself is often the cheapest option. Once you get into serious territory, leasing the tech is much cheaper. We've got 20+ servers. The connection and bandwidth alone for those would be prohibitive if we were to host ourselves.

All my personal hosting is done on cheap Hostgator and Dreamhost plans. I am launching a new mission-critical project and currently evaluating various VPS options (including Amazon EC2), with a redundancy that I will be hosting myself through a static IP on DSL.

[Mayo]

I still don't run my website but will be hitting public soon..

-AMD athlon xp 1500+
-1.25 GB RAM
-40GB 7.200 RPM HDD
-100 Mbit/s ethernet card
-1024/256Kbit/s adsl link (will upgrade to 3Mbit/512kbit adsl,
later to professional 4Mbit sDSL line)
-anti-LAMP ... actually i use some pretty weird stuff right here,
interbred of RoR and Lispy language

The adsl line costs cca. 40$ for current 1Mbit line but it's great bundle for time being. Dedicated 4Mbit sDSL line will probably cost me cca. 250$ but i will use two or thre lines so it will be arround 700-800$US for 12Mbit dedicated line(s).

[Calvin Woon]

Hi,

I use Hostgator. And I get around 1500 unique visitors each month. Rather little, but slowly on the rise.