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IRC/Mail Hosting
Wolfishire
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I was looking at hosting an IRC channel with a max number of people being around 25. I also would like to host a simple webpage (HTML, CSS only 2-3 pages), and a webmail server to replace Gmail (light usage)
What would I need to host all of these things?
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256-512MB OpenVZ VPS. You can't go wrong with 1GB VPS with some of the prices available.
A yearly option with a reputable provider would make it cost effective. By reputable provider, this means you did some research on who the company is and not just chasing the "best" deal with lowest price.
You'd probably just need an IRCd (InspireIRCd for example), and nginx. I'm not too experienced on the topic of mail, but seems like you can get around it with iRedMail.
Even 64-128mb would be fine if you don't need webmail.
Depends on the software you choose.
If you use apache as webserver and a full featured IRCd, 1gb would probabily be necessary. Otherwise, if you use openlitespeed/cherooke/nginx as webserver and a lightweight IRCd (like ngIRCd), 512mb are probably more than enough.
Postfix and dovecot for mail
nginx for website
IRC server software
Can't imagine email+static website using much RAM at all (<<50MB). Idk about IRC server
//EDIT: Didn't read "web"mail. Use Squirrelmail for easy webmail over IMAP. You will also need PHP (but no MySQL I think)
For irc server: http://www.lowendguide.com/3/irc/charybdis-complete-irc-daemon/
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