[mk2phil]

Do any of you guys rent a server that you use to host client's sites (including those you have designed and built)?

Me and a friend are planning to do so, but would like to draw up some terms and conditions first. Has anyone else done this, if so where did you 'borrow' the T&C's from?

Thanks

[Subversive]

When myself and my business partner started our design company we started off with a simple reseller account to host our clients on. It was less hastle for the client because they all seem to like us sorting the whole package out for them and it was easier for us because it saved us buying a new package each time we got a new client.
As we grew bigger we upped the stakes and moved into the more mainstream webhosting biz and started picking up customers just for the hosting.
We now have our own servers, but to start off, I'd recommend a reseller account, as mentioned and we just borrowed our reseller host's T&Cs as a guide and changed bits arround a tad.

There's plenty of sites out there that do downloadable T&Cs for you. I'm sure they've been mentioned a few times on here before.

[TheLegace]

There are two things you can do.

1) Get your own computers/server hardware and setup things at home, or whereever you want to. You are going to need a considerable amount of upload bandwith, this is not suggested though.

2) You can purchase server hardware, and as far as I am concerned hi-end pcs work well, if your intermediate to beginner hoster. And then send it of two a company that has fiber and speeds a server would need. This usually cost about $100, this is called server co-location, placing a server elsewhere, this works well if you dont have internet speed at home or in a residential/commercial area.

Please correct me If am wrong.

[funkyprem]

I just decided to take the plunge and go the whole hog straight away, to save any potential hassle of moving packages at a later date. So I split (via a gentlemans aggreement) with a friend of mine, as we both basically wanted a big shiny toy to play with!

If you reckon you'll be getting a lot more work within a year or two, i'd say go down the dedicated server route from the start.

[NevF]

Originally Posted by TheLegace

There are two things you can do.

1) Get your own computers/server hardware and setup things at home, or whereever you want to. You are going to need a considerable amount of upload bandwith, this is not suggested though.

2) You can purchase server hardware, and as far as I am concerned hi-end pcs work well, if your intermediate to beginner hoster. And then send it of two a company that has fiber and speeds a server would need. This usually cost about $100, this is called server co-location, placing a server elsewhere, this works well if you dont have internet speed at home or in a residential/commercial area.

Please correct me If am wrong.

Your not wrong, thats what you have to do. However, it's harder to do that than it looks and you'll need some experience for the most part..