How much should I charge for setting up a client web server? [closed]

Posted by Vincent on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Vincent
Published on 2011-11-25T22:40:44Z Indexed on 2011/11/26 1:54 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 457

Filed under:

hosting

|

setup

|

cost

I have quite the eccentric client who wants to move all his ecommerce websites (about 5-10, all PHP/MySQL) to his own web server that I'm supposed to build. He doesn't want to hear anything about VPS hosting and all the issues and expenses related to owning a server. My responsibility would be to buy all the hardware, install and configure software, etc. How much should I charge for this? I'm planning to start with two relatively moderate Dell PowerEdge C2100 servers, one for web (NGINX), one for db (MySQL).

© Server Fault or respective owner

Related posts about hosting

Suitable Hosting for Web Development Company: VPS Hosting, Cloud hosting, Shared Hosting

as seen on Pro Webmasters - Search for 'Pro Webmasters'
Hi, We are web development company here in nepal. We are still in growth phase. Our URL: http://www.outsourcingnepal.com We have our clients demanding for web hosting and are now ready for getting hosting package to host websites of our clients. Since we have multiple clients and they want their… >>> More
Enterprise SharePoint 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Standard 2010 Hos

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
Enterprise SharePoint 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Foundation 2010 Hosting, SharePoint Standard 2010 Hosting, Michigan Sclera, a Microsoft Hosted Services Provider Partner, is offering key Service Offerings around the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 stack. Specifically – if you’re looking for SharePoint… >>> More
Hosting 2 Sites Under 1 DiscountASP.Net Hosting Account

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I've currently got an ASP.Net site hosted with DiscountASP.Net what I would like to do now is put a second site in a subdirectory of this original site and register a new domain to point at the subfolder, so to the end user its 2 completely seperate sites. I've asked DiscountASP support if they could… >>> More
Is virtual hosting any better than shared hosting?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Is there any real performance gain on a virtual hosting over a shared hosting? Do you recommend any virtual hosting costing bellow $100? >>> More
moving from shared-hosting to VPS-hosting

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
Hi, I'm thinking of moving my social network from shared hosting to VPS hosting. I'm not familiar with VPS and have no experience. Will that be a problem? Thanks >>> More

Related posts about setup

Error when installing AppFabric 1.1 on Server 2012 64bit

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I am trying to install AppFabric 1.1 on 64bit Windows Server 2012 R2. All updates have been installed and updates are turned ON .NET Framework 4.0 is installed .NET Framework 3.5 is installed IIS is installed Windows Powershell 3.0 should already be included in Server 2012 I am getting the following… >>> More
Error with SQL Server Setup 2012 on Windows 2012

as seen on Server Fault - Search for 'Server Fault'
I am trying to install SQL Server on Windows 2012. I was able to finally get the wizard up and running after making some changes on the server, but now it fails no matter what I do with the following error: TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure. SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error: … >>> More
Warning while downloading setup.exe builded by visual setup project

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I've built installer for my(c#, wpf) application by visual setup project. I share my project over internet by web site. But when I download the file I receive warning(actually looks like terrible error or virus) that the application(setup.exe) can harm my computer and apocalypse will come in near… >>> More
Setup a vpn server on Ubuntu server, but client can't setup a connection

as seen on Ask Ubuntu - Search for 'Ask Ubuntu'
I setup a vpn server using pptpd on the ubuntu server which is installed in a virtual box machine on a windows 7 desktop. I configure the vpn server and port forwarding in the windows. However, I cannot setup a connection to the server. Here's the ubuntu log I got when I tried to connect to this… >>> More
Python Django MySQLdb setup problem:: setup.py dosen't build due to incorrect location of mysql

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm trying to install MySQLdb for python. but when I run the setup, this is the error I get. well I know why its giving all the missing file statements, but dont know where to change the bold marked location from. Please help gaurav-toshniwals-macbook-7:MySQL-python-1.2.3c1 gauravtoshniwal$ python… >>> More