Comments on: What does one do with a server?

By: Surf Roots, Software Thoughts » Lessons in Hosting

Surf Roots, Software Thoughts » Lessons in Hosting — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:49:33 +0000

[...] tried to sell services such as game server hosting, web hosting, etc, but I didn’t get any bites. I will step foot [...]

By: Alex Loddengaard

Alex Loddengaard — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:36:03 +0000

Thanks for the link, Tom.

Chris, I totally agree that running services will be time consuming, though I don’t think I mind so much. I almost like playing sysadmin :). We’ll see what happens. Thanks for your feedback, though!

By: chris nguyen

chris nguyen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:07:39 +0000

selling hosting services requires too much of your own time to run on a smaller scale (support, stupid users, etc etc). –i should mention that i’ve tried doing it.

note: i’ve been on dreamhost for like 3 years now and you can’t beat the features. their reliability is a weak point, but i’m willing to accept the tradeoff.

By: Tom Asaro

Tom Asaro — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:26:17 +0000

Check out Linode.com and browse your current provider’s forum — there may be someone already colo’d there that needs a new server.

By: Alex Loddengaard

Alex Loddengaard — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:38:51 +0000

Interesting, Ryan. Thanks for the info!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:15:46 +0000

bash.org needs a new server……..

By: Alex Loddengaard

Alex Loddengaard — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:46:49 +0000

Thanks for the idea, jsalvati! Rob, I’ll shoot you an email.

By: rob

rob — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:19:41 +0000

I got a small project. How much?

By: jsalvati

jsalvati — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:56:05 +0000

Whatever you do, don’t do SETI. If you want to do charity, sell it and donate it to GiveWell (which researches other charities and donates to the most effective (in terms of lives saved or a few other measures) one). Not that SETI is bad or anything, but you should get the most out of your charity dollars that you can.