building a web(wordpress) server

[knibbs1325]

so i need to build a lite wordpress server to host one or two sites designed to be portfolios. so far these are the parts that i have picked out: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/kvzZMp

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/kvzZMp
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/kvzZMp/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Motherboard: Asus H87M-E Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($73.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($47.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($47.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 USB 3.0 MicroATX Mid Tower Case  ($32.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $362.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-26 21:42 EDT-0400

 

i would be plugging in a refurb 4 port gigabit card and running ubunto server 15, im just not sure if that would be powerful enough to run everything stable as well as if the mobo supports hardware raid 1 for the os and files

[CyberneticTitan]

Portfolios aren't exacly system demanding and unless you are getting like a hundred thousand plus hits a month; you won't need dedicated hardware.

 

You'd be fine with shared hosting or a small VPS.

 

www.lowendbox.com - Lots of good sub $15 a year VPS plans.

[knibbs1325]

Portfolios aren't exacly system demanding and unless you are getting like a hundred thousand plus hits a month, you won't need dedicated hardware.

 

You'd be fine with shared hosting or a small VPS.

 

www.lowendbox.com - Lots of good sub $15 a year VPS plans.

ok then, the only hosting sites i have found wanted around $12/month so it made more sense to me to just run dedicated, but i might be adding a few more demanding sites in the future like a wordpress commerce site but ill look into that

[thekeemo]

ok then, the only hosting sites i have found wanted around $12/month so it made more sense to me to just run dedicated, but i might be adding a few more demanding sites in the future like a wordpress commerce site but ill look into that

take a look at X10 hosting

[CyberneticTitan]

take a look at X10 hosting

 

Would not suggest any type of free hosting if you're serious about your website.

[thekeemo]

Would not suggest any type of free hosting if you're serious about your website.

trust me when I say this, x10 is awesome.

[CyberneticTitan]

trust me when I say this, x10 is awesome.

 

Trust me when I say that you get what you pay for. But yeah, X10 is one of the better free hosts out there.

[thekeemo]

Trust me when I say that you get what you pay for. But yeah, X10 is one of the better free hosts out there.

unlimited storage lightning fast support. Only complaint is no is no remote php

[knibbs1325]

take a look at X10 hosting

i already have the domain name so i wouldnt be able to use x10 since its locked to one of their subdomains

[CyberneticTitan]

i already have the domain name so i wouldnt be able to use x10 since its locked to one of their subdomains

 

You can still use your domain

 

https://x10hosting.com/wiki/How_to_Use_Your_Own_Domain

[knibbs1325]

Portfolios aren't exacly system demanding and unless you are getting like a hundred thousand plus hits a month; you won't need dedicated hardware.

 

You'd be fine with shared hosting or a small VPS.

 

www.lowendbox.com - Lots of good sub $15 a year VPS plans.

i feel like in the long run it would be easier to run my own dedicated, since the best looking service is running at almost $85/ year and for the price of less than one weeks work i could have something a magnitude of power stronger

[thekeemo]

i feel like in the long run it would be easier to run my own dedicated, since the best looking service is running at almost $85/ year and for the price of less than one weeks work i could have something a magnitude of power stronger

you just start it with their domain and then you select add site and put in your domain

[CyberneticTitan]

i feel like in the long run it would be easier to run my own dedicated, since the best looking service is running at almost $85/ year and for the price of less than one weeks work i could have something a magnitude of power stronger

 

Again, VPS hosting would cost less than $20 a year.

 

However if you do want to do locally managed and you have the internet horsepower to back it up, I'd recommend this budget build:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor  ($64.89 @ OutletPC) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-S1 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($46.89 @ OutletPC) 

Memory: Team Elite Plus 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($47.89 @ OutletPC) 

Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($38.99 @ NCIX US) 

Power Supply: SeaSonic 300W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($30.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Total: $264.64

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-26 22:17 EDT-0400

 

You'd probably be fine with 4GB, but it'd be nice to have extra. Any more money spent in SSD wouldn't make any noticeable difference on the client side, unless you want to run RAID. The 300W is a good SeaSonic model, so you'd be fine.

 

If you choose to host it locally you also risk power loss and data loss from non-ECC RAM.

[tt2468]

X10 is free, but it comes with a cost, quality. Use a webhost like nfoservers.com. The are known for their gameservers, but you can also use their webhosting plan. It's only around 3 bucks for everything you will ever want. You can attach unlimited domains with almost everything else unlimited. They even have autoinstallers for wordpress/phpbb.

[xQubeZx]

A raspberry pi 2 would probably be strong enough if you are not planning to have a huge amounts of visiters.

[Hackzzila]

ok then, the only hosting sites i have found wanted around $12/month so it made more sense to me to just run dedicated, but i might be adding a few more demanding sites in the future like a wordpress commerce site but ill look into that

Take a look at DigitalOcean, they go as low as $5 and can run a variety of OSs, I currently have a LAMP stack on ubuntu server.

You just SSH and SFTP in to the server.

[Brenz]

Building a dedicated server for a few portfolios is massive overkill and then building it with consumer parts and running it from home is just asking for trouble down the line.

 

Seriously shared hosting or at most a small server from DigitalOcean ($5/mo) or AWS will be perfectly fine