Self Hosted

I came across this link recently, it is an artical by Philip Greenspun, written in 2008, about hosting your own web server.  Although it is slightly out of date, it is only a year old and has a lot of valuable information about ‘your own’ web server.

I think he does a great job to help you understand some of the hidden costs of various different flavors of hosting. The rule today is still the same, the most expensive form of hosting, is your server, your location, and the least expensive is their server, their location.  Because of all the hidden costs of home servers.  But if you want control, nothing can be better then your own home.

As a server manager, one of the most important tasks you need to undertake is keeping up with the operating system updates.  One of the best ways that you can keep up, and learn quite a bit about what is currently going on with your operating system, is to join a mailing list.  If you use one of the popular operating systems for web servers, finding a mailing list is simple, and joining is simple too.  Here are a few to get you started:

• Fedora Core
• CentOS
• Ubuntu
• Windows