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Estimated Costs For Hosting??

I have a friend who wants to host a web server and an exchange server based on windows 2003. Estimated number of sites that will be hosted is between 10 to 20 and with around 200 exchange users. my question is what is rough costs that we are looking at excluding the hardware. I want to know what type of connection we require and costs for that, also how much the software would cost. Windows licences are confusing to me, how much would it cost for a 2003 server and what do client access licences mean :confused: :confused: What type hardware i should look for and estimated costs. Thanks in advance.
 
Your looking at least a few grand for the servers etc and if the 200 exchange users will be connecting over the internet you would be best going for a leased line or at the very min a SDSL line.

Its not going to be cheap.
 
Colocation is your best option, try asking on Forum2 where all the Web hosts hang out.
 
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The cost of buying the hardware is tiny compared to the line you would need to host websites. Remember that if your upload speed is 256 or 488 kbps that is the maximum someone hitting your server would get as their download speed. That is the reason why web farms have 10T lines which are 10bg upload and download speeds. These are optical lines which cost £10,000 PA to maintain and who knows how much to have installed.
The thought of hosting your own websites on your own server sounds appealing until you consider the bandwidth it would cost you....
Co-location rental would be the easiest and safest option if you are serious about hosting 10-20 sites. The question I have to ask is why a M$ Exchange Server. A Linux mail server is both cheaper and more stable and most web hosts on the web offer both Linux servers and webmail with hosting packages.
 
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