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I asked this in another thread but thought it would maybe deserve its own thread.
Other then the obvious of web hosting, what are other services one can use a server's spare resources to sell in order to make up the costs?
My setup is a Linux server with a VM for a game server, the Linux portion I'll probably use to host my own sites, then I was thinking of offering some kind of service just to cover the cost, basically.
Things I have in mind:
- Remote support system (something like gotoassist, logmein etc)
- Strictly email
- File storage (ex: just basic ftp/apache/file manager)
- Spam filtering (email comes in, is filtered/tagged, goes out right away)
The remote management one seems appealing as theres not that many of those out there and most if all of the solutions I've seen have downfalls. Like for example at work we use gotoassist, but you can't log out of the system or it will break the connection.
Email and file storage are not really feasible in my case, if I do that I may as well just do hosting, same with spam filtering, as all those normally come with hosting anyway, so why pay for that when a host package will have it anyway.
Basically I'm looking for something that would have some kind of demand, other then web hosting.
I was even thinking free web hosting, since I can oversell that all I want, since well, its free. So I could make money off ads, is anyone doing this successfully, is it worth trying? I'd filter out and approve sites upon registration, and not just let any joe blow put some stupid spam page up. Downside though is I'd have tons of people with access to the server and ssh (though I can always opt to not give ssh access and just ftp)Well, depending on the resources you could look into selling teamspeak (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.teamspeak.com">www.teamspeak.com</a><!-- w -->) & Ventrilo *requires license* (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ventrilo.com">www.ventrilo.com</a><!-- w -->). Email would be a good option as its light on resources, the only thing really to worry about is space and CPU.hmm teamspeak could actually work. Don't think it takes too much resources, just bandwidth, which I have lot of. Basically I have 1GB of ram to play with, 60GB of space and 2000-2500GB give or take. (2500 is max, game server uses 20 at most per month)Whats the OS type of the configurations that your trying to "play with"This is server specs:-Dual Xeon Dual Core (at least according to Linux, it sees 4CPUs)-2GB of ram (1GB reserved for my game VM)- Two 120GB drives (40GB used, the other I'll use as backup only, and maybe logs)- 2500GB bandwidth- 100mbpsso really I don't have that much disk space for web hosting, and I may overtax the cpu if I host enough sites to pay off the server.But bandwidth I have plenty of. At most I'll transfer my own websites and see how that fairs out.Whats the OS type of the configurations that your trying to "play with"<text included here to make my post longer>CentOS5. Somehow I forgot to mention that...CentOS5. Somehow I forgot to mention that...Its alright.Its not that hard (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.fdcservers.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1212">http://www.fdcservers.net/vbulletin/sho ... php?t=1212</a><!-- m -->) to install teamspeak.
Are there any other services that people can think of other than teamspeak?
Other then the obvious of web hosting, what are other services one can use a server's spare resources to sell in order to make up the costs?
My setup is a Linux server with a VM for a game server, the Linux portion I'll probably use to host my own sites, then I was thinking of offering some kind of service just to cover the cost, basically.
Things I have in mind:
- Remote support system (something like gotoassist, logmein etc)
- Strictly email
- File storage (ex: just basic ftp/apache/file manager)
- Spam filtering (email comes in, is filtered/tagged, goes out right away)
The remote management one seems appealing as theres not that many of those out there and most if all of the solutions I've seen have downfalls. Like for example at work we use gotoassist, but you can't log out of the system or it will break the connection.
Email and file storage are not really feasible in my case, if I do that I may as well just do hosting, same with spam filtering, as all those normally come with hosting anyway, so why pay for that when a host package will have it anyway.
Basically I'm looking for something that would have some kind of demand, other then web hosting.
I was even thinking free web hosting, since I can oversell that all I want, since well, its free. So I could make money off ads, is anyone doing this successfully, is it worth trying? I'd filter out and approve sites upon registration, and not just let any joe blow put some stupid spam page up. Downside though is I'd have tons of people with access to the server and ssh (though I can always opt to not give ssh access and just ftp)Well, depending on the resources you could look into selling teamspeak (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.teamspeak.com">www.teamspeak.com</a><!-- w -->) & Ventrilo *requires license* (<!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ventrilo.com">www.ventrilo.com</a><!-- w -->). Email would be a good option as its light on resources, the only thing really to worry about is space and CPU.hmm teamspeak could actually work. Don't think it takes too much resources, just bandwidth, which I have lot of. Basically I have 1GB of ram to play with, 60GB of space and 2000-2500GB give or take. (2500 is max, game server uses 20 at most per month)Whats the OS type of the configurations that your trying to "play with"This is server specs:-Dual Xeon Dual Core (at least according to Linux, it sees 4CPUs)-2GB of ram (1GB reserved for my game VM)- Two 120GB drives (40GB used, the other I'll use as backup only, and maybe logs)- 2500GB bandwidth- 100mbpsso really I don't have that much disk space for web hosting, and I may overtax the cpu if I host enough sites to pay off the server.But bandwidth I have plenty of. At most I'll transfer my own websites and see how that fairs out.Whats the OS type of the configurations that your trying to "play with"<text included here to make my post longer>CentOS5. Somehow I forgot to mention that...CentOS5. Somehow I forgot to mention that...Its alright.Its not that hard (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.fdcservers.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1212">http://www.fdcservers.net/vbulletin/sho ... php?t=1212</a><!-- m -->) to install teamspeak.
Are there any other services that people can think of other than teamspeak?