Questions About Hostings.

[Mango]

1. What are the processors all about? Is this the speed of the hosting service for your servers, and how much RAM you will get in it to sell off to other people?
2. Once you get a dedicated thing, how do you set it up, is there a tutorial on YouTube or something?
3. How much money in total would it be for someone like me to start off with it?
4. How much money would a dedicated thing be for me with not as much RAM, but enough to start a company out with it.
5. How much would a Multicraft license cost for the starting host? And how would you set it up with everything
6. How will you receive payments and all of that.
7. How will you connect it all into a site.

Basically what I am trying to say in this thread, is how much money it would cost for me to start out with, and then how to set it all up, xD.​

 

[abstraq]

So if I read this correctly you wanna buy a dedicated server and rent it out to other people even though you know absolutely nothing about server hosting?

 

[Mango]

So if I read this correctly you wanna buy a dedicated server and rent it out to other people even though you know absolutely nothing about server hosting?

I know a bit about server hosting, but not really owning one, and setting it up, xD.
Like, I know all together you probably need an i7 processor, along with some Xeon 5 processors, and also have WHMCS license, and multicraft, lel, xD.

 

[Khawk]

Yeah you know very little about setting up the dedi, website, and managing the sales.

 

[Luca]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+make+a+minecraft+hosting

 

[FTSOwner]

So if I read this correctly you wanna buy a dedicated server and rent it out to other people even though you know absolutely nothing about server hosting?

Everyone has to start out somewhere right? With that said I will be happy to take it from here.

1. What are the processors all about? Is this the speed of the hosting service for your servers, and how much RAM you will get in it to sell off to other people?
2. Once you get a dedicated thing, how do you set it up, is there a tutorial on YouTube or something?
3. How much money in total would it be for someone like me to start off with it?
4. How much money would a dedicated thing be for me with not as much RAM, but enough to start a company out with it.
5. How much would a Multicraft license cost for the starting host? And how would you set it up with everything
6. How will you receive payments and all of that.
7. How will you connect it all into a site.

1. Understanding what a CPU is and about loading RAM is indeed a good question to be asking no doubts about it. A way I like to think of a CPU is like the blender's "blades". Whereas the RAM being like the "container" of the blender. The more RAM you wish to host the better the CPU needs to be. That why you don't see small blades inside of huge blenders. If you were to carelessly load say a E3v5 to the max (64GB) then the server most likely will crash. This is like loading the brim of the lower end blender with ice cubes and it not turning it into crushed ice.

As for rationing off how much RAM you sell of is your call. Do you want to provide cheaper servicing? Then you may have little "breathing" room, none at all, or even have to go the point of "overselling" the RAM that you have. On the other hand if you're actually planning on providing quality I would ration off no more than ~80% of the RAM to clients. Then keeping an eye on the CPU/IOPS/Bandwidth to ensure there no "bottlenecks" in the system.

2. If you're going to do this to make money. There is NO excuse not to get proper system administration servicing. Your business will thank you in the long run for making the extra investments.

3. ~$150-~$250/month depending on what type of servicing you plan on providing. Then I would budget another $500 for "upfront" expenses and some "cushioning".

4. The node itself would cost you ~$100 or so for SSDs in SW RAID 1, ~16GB RAM, decent Quad CPU, and a 100Mbps/1Gbps uplink.

5. Multicraft itself is about $7/month and then you can easily up the server count when you need to provision more than 5 servers. See No. 2 for Multicraft setup as well.

6. To process Credit Cards and etc. You will need to enlist at a "Payment Processor" such as Paypal for businesses and/or Stripe.

7. Again refer to No. 2 for a web server setup. For security reasons you should deploy a VPS for this rather than placing this in the same box or even going shared.


I hope this provide a good set of your requested information. You got a quite some way to go but "crawling before running" by asking these questions is a good way to get your research and planning started.