Power up with new SaaS Add-Ons from the DigitalOcean Marketplace

Question

Use DigitalOcean to provide web hosting

  • Posted August 11, 2013

Hi, I was just wondering if it would be possible to use DigitalOcean start a web hosting company? I would also like to know if there is anywhere I can get more space cheaply to store the content for the websites?

Thanks in advance, Francis

Subscribe
Share
Submit an answer
You can type!ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Francis McNamee • August 12, 2013

Thanks for all your help guys! <br>:D

hosting177038 • August 12, 2013

Francis – you don’t need to manage your own DNS servers. You can just use the registrar (GoDaddy, NameCheap, Network Solutions) control panel to manage your client’s DNS settings. Faster, more reliable, and free. You’ll be busy enough managing web servers - you don’t want to manage DNS servers if the registrars will do it for free. Good luck!

Kamal Nasser • August 12, 2013

You can theoretically host unlimited websites on 1 512MB droplet. It depends on each website’s load. You can have a fair-usage policy so that they are not allowed to take up a lot of resources for a long period of time.

Francis McNamee • August 12, 2013

Thanks for your help guys, I just have one more question (I promise this is the last one). <br>To get started I was going to use 3 512mb droplets, 2 for dns servers and actually serving the websites and 1 for database querys and handling things like payments and stuff. <br> <br>My last question is, how many sites realistically could 2 512mb droplets serve up ? (I don’t plan on using the 512mb droplets for long, it’s just while I get started, then I would gradually upgrade to 1 gb droplets, then 2gb droplets ect …). <br>The reason I want to know this is because it would give me a better idea of how quickly the operating costs would go up. <br> <br>Thanks again, <br>Francis

Kamal Nasser • August 12, 2013

It would be faster if you host the droplet in AMS since it’s geographically closer to your users.

nhatkhoa • August 12, 2013

made the droplet in Amsterdam , speed will faster for sure because data doesnt need go overseas

Francis McNamee • August 11, 2013

Ok sorry about my last question, I did some research and now I know the difference between S3 and Glacier, I just have one more question, I want to initially target my web hosting at people from the UK and Ireland, my question is, would the websites load faster if I made the droplet in Amsterdam than if I made the droplet in New York? Or is the difference not noticeable? <br> <br>Thanks again, <br>Francis

Francis McNamee • August 11, 2013

Sorry about this again, but would Amazon Glacier be suitable because from what I’ve seen their similar except Glacier is much cheaper. (Again I’m sorry to ask about Amazon products on DigitalOcean) <br> <br>Thanks again, <br>Francis

Francis McNamee • August 11, 2013

Thanks for your help. <br>:D

Kamal Nasser • August 11, 2013

These should help: <br> <br>- http://linux.die.net/man/1/s3fs <br>- http://www.curvve.com/blog/servers/2013/install-s3fs-and-fuse-on-centos-6-rhel-and-mount-s3-drive-on-ec2/#.UgfpXuYW0dM <br>- http://xentek.net/articles/448/installing-fuse-s3fs-and-sshfs-on-ubuntu/