Need info on how to make my own web-hosting service

[Lt.Steele]

Ok, here is what i want to do:

I want to make my own web hosting service which can include ASP, PHP, CGI, Perl, SSI, SSH, MySQL, MsQL.

Basically, features everything which everyone needs

I have a server about 80GB space, and a T3-dual line

I want to make it free but must include banners, bottom banners

How can i obtain the resources to make the web so people could register and edit their web via the control pannel

and also...how would i install PHPs and all these functions on my server

[Beans]

i would presume that u r running on windows?

[Lt.Steele]

I dont even know which platform to use it on

[atlas]

Originally posted by Lt.Steele
I dont even know which platform to use it on



Use Linux :)

What's the hardware you plan on using for this? RAM, CPU, HD interface, etc.

[razor]

yeah, try linux. it is more realible and has better up time than windows.

[Koolguy]

Be careful and plan our our host, most FWP's fail or lose money. Try not to be one of them.

[Vinay]

use linux.. specifically the redhat distribution is the most commonly used http://www.redhat.com

or if you want a more robust environment for hte purpose, use FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.com

[RNilsson]

I would stick with a linux-dist that you feel comfortable setting up and working with.

For me, i've got a P166/64Ram server running for the dsl-routing for my home-network.
I've set up an (Got this from netcraft.com)
Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.25, mod_ssl/2.8.0, OpenSSL/0.9.6. I run SuSE 7.0 with a pretty much standard network-oriented install. http://www.suse.de & .com

You also might want to check http://www.linux.com .org etc.

But also consider that i've set this up as an experimental/devel-setup, and with almost everything i've got compiled in as modules for apache and only have a very few (around 4-5 develsites up) for experimenting.

It took about 4 working days to get all set up.

*Just my rambling on here...move along please*