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A friend of mine wants to start a Virtual Classroom for poor children and adults in remote rural areas of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. He hopes to achieve this by starting a Web Site where the "Students" can log in and Video Conference with volunteer Teachers from UK and USA who will Teach them Online. To facilitate the poor villagers getting Online, we have had a lot of Multi National Companies willing to donate their old computers which will be given to these people in the remote villages as gifts. The Goverrnments there have also agreed to give them free Internet Broadband Access. The first question is : Does my friend need to maintain a server on his side to have his Web Site in? Second : Does he need to pay for VOIP for these people to Video Conference with him and his Volunteer Tutors? Third : What's the kind of hardware he needs to get and why? Your kind assistance will be deeply appreciated!

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To host he website require web server, we can get it by web hosting solutions. You need VOIP connection.
Your friend would not really have to maintain the server. He could get hosting from other sources. The web server would host the PHP, flash, and ava needed for the video conferencing. As for the cost of the bandwidth (including VOIP), that would be up to the hosting company that you deal with. As for hardware on his end, a standard desktop computer wold be more than enough if he has the site hosted by a comercial web hosting service.