Hosting my own website with a server....HOW???

I want to start a website that can cater for high bandwidth.

I have been told that I will need a server as most web hosts wont allow high bandwidth. My website will hopefully be as big as youtube. So the server must be capable of high bandwidth so users can upload movies and pics.

What server should i buy to start off with?

Will i need to buy my own IP address? as somone said that internet providers wont allow high bandwidth.

Can someone point me in the right direction, im a total novice when it comes to servers etc.

I know my website will be a huge hit! I need to know where i can get some advice on servers etc..

Hope you can help....

Hosting my own website with a server....HOW???

It is better to go for dedicated servers, where you will have only your site in the server compared to shared hosting, where many sites run in same server. Dedicated server packages always come with own IP addresses. One of the top dedicated hosting providers is http://www.theplanet.com/ . But you need more technical knowledge to run a site in dedicated server than in shared server. because you may need to decide on the Operating system to run in server, software to be installed etc. Managed dedicated hosting will reduce your job, since they will install it for you but it can be costlier

Hosting my own website with a server....HOW???

Yes you would need a server. You can buy pretty good servers from DELL, just for High Bandwidth and A lot of people visiting your site You well need a couple of servers to be able to handle the load (this is a couple thousand right there).

Now you need a High Speed Connection to be able to take all the users coming to your site. T1 line or something like that would have to be. (Meaning you want your connection to be faster then a lot of high speed connections).

Who knows how much that well cost.

You probably just want to hire somebody to set this all up for you. At least talk to some company about setting up a website. If you don%26#039;t know anything about servers I don%26#039;t know how you are going to figure this out with just asking questions on yahoo.

Other Replys:Your best choice is managed or virtual servers.

$100/month gives you 2000GB of bandwidth and 320Gb hard drive. Take a look:

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/ServerM...

Until you actually need the power and flexibility of a server,

start with webhosting: $10/month = 250GB web space and 2500GB bandwidth.

Use 1%26amp;1. The business package is on sale for $5.80/month instead of $10. You can change or upgrade (even to a server), whenever you want.

http://order.1and1.com/xml/order/MsHosti...