Setting up your own webserver

**Brainer** · 09-01-2009, 08:59 AM

Hello everyone.

I bet this topic is pretty commonplace but I'm a little confused and would like to set up my very own webserver in order not to depend on other web hostings - whether paid or not.

Most people suggest to give up on setting up your own at home, and go for a paid hosting plan, which is better because {megatons of gibberish}... Well, I cannot disagree with them, because it's a matter of fact that those services are offered by professionals. But you know, the perspective of paying money for them is just killing me inside (not that I'm a miser or something :lol: )...

In my opinion, the most important thing is connection - upstream speed to be precise. Most of Internet offers here, in Poland, is no good for me - there are mostly ADSL connections here (more download bandwidth than upload). I have a 2mbit one, which is around 48 kB/s upload. That sucks, but that's why I wonder, how is it possible to provide the same transfer to everyone who connects to my server? How is it done in free file hosting services?

And these are my questions. I hope there's anyone who can answer them clearly enough for me. :lol:

**efilnukefesin** · 09-01-2009, 09:17 AM

i'm not quite sure about the division of your upload, but i know some providers make it possible to switch your up- and download for a day, means you log in on a site from your isp and say "the 16 of january i want up- and download switched" and then you have your 48kb download and 2mb upload.
i don't think it costs extra, but i'm quite unsure if something like that is offered in poland...

**Chesso** · 09-01-2009, 09:33 AM

If money is not too big an issue, some ISP's provide more business like internet accounts (ones that might need to used in a multi level building for instance, or an internet cafe etc etc).

Try talking to local ISP's about this.

**Brainer** · 09-01-2009, 09:47 AM

efilnukefesin, I've already asked my ISP and this is not possible in my case (I wanted to do it a long time ago).
Chesso, those "business-like" ones suck too, because just like I mentioned, transfers are comparable.

Hmm... I really wonder how it's done in Rapidshare. Let me do some calculations here (later, you can tell me whether they're right

).
:arrow: Let's say RS has 7 servers, 100/100 mbit each (around 13 MB/s).
:arrow: There are 100 clients connected simultaneously who are downloading at 256 kB/s each.
:arrow: Overall servers connection speed is 7 * 13 = 91 MB/s.
:arrow: Overall transfer of clients is 100 * 256 = 25600 kB/s = 25,6 MB/s.
:arrow: Let's increase the number to 300. So it's 25,6 * 3 = 76,8 MB/s.
:arrow: That's still not enough. Let's say there are 600 clients connected. So it's 25,6 * 6 = 153, 6 MB.
That exceeds the overall connection speed of Rapidshare, but still you are able to download at 256 kB/s. :| How is it done?

**noeska** · 09-01-2009, 11:36 AM

you could take a look over the border in germany for getting hosting: e.g. have a look at http://www.strato.de
what you want is something like a vps aka v-powerserver

**Brainer** · 09-01-2009, 05:39 PM

noeska, I'm not looking for offers, I just want to know how certain things work. Besides, I'm not really keen to pay, especially in a foreign currency.

**noeska** · 09-01-2009, 06:28 PM

Ok then have a look at wikipedia about what adsl is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL
So what you want if you want host from your own server at home is a real dsl line. And these are hard to find even in the netherlands. So you have to settle with slower speeds.

Those 48kb are per second. So try calculation the bandwidth per month from that.

PS: Try to visit http://thuis.vanderhoning.net it is on my home adsl connection.

**Brainer** · 09-01-2009, 08:17 PM

Yip, DSL lines are very hard to find. :? Well, I've got a fileserver on my mind, so the topic title is misleading, but still, I was thinking of a solution that can partially solve my problems. What I mean is I could set up a queue system, so that you reserve tickets before you can download. It's not a really good way, but I can't think of anything better now.

And there's another minus of paid hosting plans - you have limited hdd space. And besides, I still would've to upload files there, which is completely out of question.

I really wonder, is there no way for a normal user to set up his own file sharing server? I've got tons of stuff to share with others (mostly anime and e-books), so I guess it'd be worth trying to set up such a server. Too bad it seems too distant...

**Pyrogine** · 10-01-2009, 03:59 AM

http://www.dslwebserver.com/

if you need to solve dynamic ip problem:

http://www.no-ip.com/

**Brainer** · 10-01-2009, 06:26 AM

Pyrogine, thanks for the website, I've come across this one before, but it's not really a matter of configuration or something. I just wanted to know if it's possible to have your own filesharing server set up on a 2mbps connection. I can run my server (actually, I did it), but it's pointless if you have too slow connection - no one'd be able to download anything from it.

Nevertheless, it was nice to learn a little about networks and such. I hope of one day to be able to launch my own server.

By the way, everyone, even if I bought a dedicated server, how would I transfer data there? I can't imagine uploading over 200 GB of data with my connection. :lol: