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Originally Posted by Paul M
Why do you run a web server (and other servers) from home as opposed to just using VPS's ?
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I used to, but I prefer the level of control/access that hosting it myself provides. I'm also not limited by any restrictions on the platform the VPS would be living on such as disk space, CPU, RAM. The only limits are whatever I set based on the hardware I use. Bandwidth isn't an issue either - the 350 down / 20 up is sufficient.
I'm also not hosting anything for anyone other than myself (bar one small community website), so I don't have any SLA's to worry about, or things like power cuts, downtime on the connection, etc.... As I mentioned earlier, my job is one of the biggest reasons I have the setup I do. I work as a network engineer for a large health company with 7 sites spread across the EU, so having all this is basically like having a lab for me to experiment in and test stuff.