I'll eventually move it back to a host at some point, but my friend is head of IT at the company he works for and they were upgrading their servers so they just gave me one of their old servers and it has a ton of ram and fast enough processors on it, I put ESXI on it so my VMs have no problems with resources now and I already have a high speed connection that exceeds 100mb/s and a static IP. The website never had a ton of traffic in the first place, I would move it to a host if there was a huge uptick in traffic, but I barely get 30 visits a day as it is, with decent conversion. I just wanted to learn how to use this stuff so I can get the hell out of call center hell and start a career, this so far has been a good way to learn about linux, vmware, load balancers, websites, webservers, setting up ssl etc. If maintaining the website proves to be a huge pain, I'll move it to a host right away as long as it's still getting sales. Until then, I just make back ups of everything on a regular basis.
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I'll eventually move it back to a host at some point, but my friend is head of IT at the company he works for and they were upgrading their servers so they just gave me one of their old servers and it has a ton of ram and fast enough processors on it, I put ESXI on it so my VMs have no problems with resources now and I already have a high speed connection that exceeds 100mb/s and a static IP. The website never had a ton of traffic in the first place, I would move it to a host if there was a huge uptick in traffic, but I barely get 30 visits a day as it is, with decent conversion. I just wanted to learn how to use this stuff so I can get the hell out of call center hell and start a career, this so far has been a good way to learn about linux, vmware, websites, webservers, setting up ssl etc. If maintaining the website proves to be a huge pain, I'll move it to a host right away as long as it's still getting sales. Until then, I just make back ups of everything on a regular basis.