Dedicated Server Question

Quote from Ken_DTU:

rackshack's good if you can do your own server admin, I use cihost, they've been great..

Interesting to see someone else get into dating sites...

I started a handful of dating sites too, but I don't have the advertising budget to compete with match.com, so they languish, check them out, I put a lot of work into them:

http://www.asiamatchclub.com
http://www.datingu.com
http://www.premiumdating.com
http://www.letsmatch.com
http://www.datelife.com

Match.com spends more than 500k/month I think, on ads... my likely budget would be more like 1-2k, so I'm not going to try yet.

I think the way to go is niche dating sites, eg for college students specifically, or seniors, whatever... vs the generic type.. fwiw.





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thats amazing the same women signed up on a couple of your sites :)
 
Quote from aphexcoil:



No haha ... I am running a club / bar review and online dating site that I plan to get up by January 1'st, 2003. I have a virtual hosting account.

Is managing a dedicated server that much harder than using Cpanel / FTP / etc on a virtual host account?

Also, how do I know if I need DUAL Xeon or P4 or celeron? Is there a basic guide for this somewhere?
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harder - most will come with cpanel/plesk/ or its an option so no, if you dont get a panel its not difficult but do you want to learn nix or just click on a gui? the panel software probably has more built in security than you do setting up nix. plus with the panels you could easily host sites for other people/business- and gives those users the interface versus asking you to configure their site.

dual xeon/p4/celeron - if your doing a terabyte of traffic and your site is nothing but database generated pages you probably want the dual xeon or a P4/AMD XP - skip the celeron unless cost is prohibitive for the other options.

if you need an SSL cert check out instantssl.com - $49
 
I am looking for a dedicated Windows server to run my ATS on it. Any experiences or suggestions?

I don't need much service, but high quality hardware and stable internet connections.
 
Quote from Ninja:

I am looking for a dedicated Windows server to run my ATS on it. Any experiences or suggestions?

I don't need much service, but high quality hardware and stable internet connections.
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i suggest getting a server in a datacenter that uses the same bandwidth that your quotes and broker use. same city if possible. unless specified - the lower price guys use generic desktops with an ide drive as dedicated servers. you might want to get your own server - something like a compaq dl360 with ilo board. the ilo board is seperate keyboard/mouse/video hookup so you can remotely access yoru server - youll see the boot up screens and can go in to the bios screens if you had too. compaq also comes with a good onsite warranty on hardware - nice when your not in the same city. make a base OS restore CD and put it in drive before sending. anything goes wrong with software you can restore - anything wrong with hardware and compaq takes care of it.
 
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