# Professional Hosting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/professional-hosting/196210>\
**Category:** talk\
**Created:** [August 6, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/professional-hosting/196210 "2006-08-06T21:08:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![alkalinetb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5daacb/32.png) [@alkalinetb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alkalinetb)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/professional-hosting/196210/1 "2006-08-06T21:08:59Z")

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hi,

This is a question to those that run a Web Design buisness.

Where do you host your websites? Do you buy from companies like 1and1 or godaddy etc, or do u have ur own servers? How hard is it to run your own server?

What and where is best for someone starting up?

What sort of cost am i looking at?

Many thanks