cPanel

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My question is: Is it worth it to buy a cPanel license and build a server or pay for hosting (secure hosting - trustful companies)?

 

Before you even ask what my internet speed is, it is 23.18 (download) and 23.88 (upload). 

[dark_xzyph3r]

My question is: Is it worth it to buy a cPanel license and build a server or pay for hosting (secure hosting - trustful companies)?

 

Before you even ask what my internet speed is, it is 23.18 (download) and 23.88 (upload). 

 

Why not just go with a VPS?

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Why not just go with a VPS?

 

1. Where? 

2. Does it come with cPanel? I don't feel like doing it though Command Line, but I could if I really have to.

3. I want a company that will protect my information.

[dark_xzyph3r]

1. Where? 

2. Does it come with cPanel? I don't feel like doing it though Command Line.

3. I want a company that will protect my information.

 

Interserver (https://interserver.net) They don't for some reason have a HTTPS front page but the login page is HTTPS and everything after that is.

 

CPanel is a $10 fee

 

I have always used them for my VPS stuff. My school uses them for our web page hosting and I use them for my Teamspeak server and for important offsite backups.

 

You can choose from OpenVZ or KVM, They have 3 diff locations: New York, New jersey, and LA. You can configure up to 16 Cores and 16GB of ram with 400 GB of storage and a 16TB data limit. You can choose from CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Scientific, OpenSuSe, Ubuntu Server, and Windows (I think it is Windows Server 2012 R2) You can have CPanel or Direct Admin and you can have SSD storage. The cheapest they have is a $6 server with 1Core 1GB of Ram 25Gb of storage and a TB transfer limit. There is also a coupon that you only pay 1 Penny for the first month then it is regular price.

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Interserver (https://interserver.net) They don't for some reason have a HTTPS front page but the login page is HTTPS and everything after that is.

 

CPanel is a $10 fee

 

I have always used them for my VPS stuff. My school uses them for our web page hosting and I use them for my Teamspeak server and for important offsite backups.

 

You can choose from OpenVZ or KVM, They have 3 diff locations: New York, New jersey, and LA. You can configure up to 16 Cores and 16GB of ram with 400 GB of storage and a 16TB data limit. You can choose from CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Scientific, OpenSuSe, Ubuntu Server, and Windows (I think it is Windows Server 2012 R2) You can have CPanel or Direct Admin and you can have SSD storage. The cheapest they have is a $6 server with 1Core 1GB of Ram 25Gb of storage and a TB transfer limit. There is also a coupon that you only pay 1 Penny for the first month then it is regular price.

Cool, what about if I had Google Fiber internet hosting for my a server? Would the chances of my internet being hacked grow bigger?

 

 

P.S. Checking it out atm

[1823alex]

You could try the 000webhost free plan, it's got cPanel free, it's alright. I'd recommend it just for testing purposes and stuff like that.

[1823alex]

Cool, what about if I had Google Fiber internet hosting for my a server? Would the chances of my internet being hacked grow bigger?

 

 

P.S. Checking it out atm

Having google fiber, wouldn't change the probability of things like DDOS attacks or someone Doxing your info etc. It's just a provider, the popularity of the website you host would however change the chances. Let's say you host a small private blog that is only accessible via direct link chances of being hacked are quite low. Chances of being hacked if you were hosting a website with the popularity level of someone like the NYTimes you'd have attempts a lot more often.\

 

EDIT:

lol Interserver has a plan with a Xeon 5130. That things is as old if not older than my generation 5 HP servers that were released in 2009.

EDIT 2:

5130 was released in Quarter 2 of 2006, the thing is 65nm, that's what I call ancient and they charge $142 a month to run on that thing. (The processor itself can be had for like $20-50 on eBay, I had to buy one once)

[dark_xzyph3r]

Cool, what about if I had Google Fiber internet hosting for my a server? Would the chances of my internet being hacked grow bigger?

 

 

P.S. Checking it out atm

 

Also there is a VPS service called Digital Ocean and they have really fast speeds for website hosting if you want I just ran a Speed Test on my TS server from theme and I got 195 Mbit/s down and 38 Mbit/s up also super cheap for $10 you can have a server with 512MB of ram 1 core CPU and a 20GB SSD  with 2TB of data transfer for 2 months

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Having google fiber, wouldn't change the probability of things like DDOS attacks or someone Doxing your info etc. It's just a provider, the popularity of the website you host would however change the chances. Let's say you host a small private blog that is only accessible via direct link chances of being hacked are quite low. Chances of being hacked if you were hosting a website with the popularity level of someone like the NYTimes you'd have attempts a lot more often.

I would probably have a small website

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Having google fiber, wouldn't change the probability of things like DDOS attacks or someone Doxing your info etc. It's just a provider, the popularity of the website you host would however change the chances. Let's say you host a small private blog that is only accessible via direct link chances of being hacked are quite low. Chances of being hacked if you were hosting a website with the popularity level of someone like the NYTimes you'd have attempts a lot more often.\

 

EDIT:

lol Interserver has a plan with a Xeon 5130. That things is as old if not older than my generation 5 HP servers that were released in 2009.

EDIT 2:

5130 was released in Quarter 2 of 2006, the thing is 65nm, that's what I call ancient and they charge $142 a month to run on that thing. (The processor itself can be had for like $20-50 on eBay, I had to buy one once)

 

Also there is a VPS service called Digital Ocean and they have really fast speeds for website hosting if you want I just ran a Speed Test on my TS server from theme and I got 195 Mbit/s down and 38 Mbit/s up also super cheap for $10 you can have a server with 512MB of ram 1 core CPU and a 20GB SSD  with 2TB of data transfer for 2 months

The problem is I want to be able to fix website issues ASAP, and not have to wait for the Hosting Company.

[omniomi]

Cool, what about if I had Google Fiber internet hosting for my a server? Would the chances of my internet being hacked grow bigger?

 

 

P.S. Checking it out atm

 

Your ISP will have zero effect on hacking attempts. As soon as you put a server on the internet it's going to be the target of automated attempts to break in. One of my lowest traffic servers in just the last 24 hours had:

 

- 392 attempts to access the server via SSH brute force.

- 336 attempts to connect to SSH that disconnected preauth. 

- 52 attempts to access /phpmyadmin

- 11 attempts to access /webadmin

- a handful of attempts to access /admin, /dbadmin, /myadmin, /mysql, and a few other random potential admin paths.

- 27 attempts to abuse mod_proxy

 

That's typical; it happens every single day on every single one of my servers. You'll also often see lots of attempts to probe for Wordpress vulnerabilities even though I don't run Wordpress on any of my servers... bots looking for /wp-admin /wp-login.php and so on.

 

Doesn't matter whether you host at home or use a VPS it's par for the course of running a server on the internet and either way it's your responsibility to harden against it and monitor it. The only time it's not your problem is if you use shared web hosting like DreamHost or similar. 

 

Now, as to the general question of running a server at home... I wouldn't if what you're planning to host has any importance whatsoever. Without battery backups, generators, redundant storage, redundant servers, redundant networking, ddos mitigation, and so on you just cannot guarantee the uptime that a data centre can. You can also get a VPS that can handle more than a few websites from a company like Linode for $10/month so it's just not worth doing it at home except for hobby reasons.

 

Finally, what exactly do you want cPanel for? There are lots of cPanel alternatives that are free.