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Old 8th February 2009
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In my volunteer work in [SAS], I'm in a postion where I'm stuck with the webmaster detail, but have no control over the actual webserver at the hosting company. At home, I run Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl off an OpenBSD machine; but it is used internally only (development, testing, playful projects, etc). The amount of maintaince I've had to put up with post-setup, amounts to upgrading packages and the OS (for me, this happens every ~6 months).


In my personal opinion, webservers are one of the few things it actually pays to have hosted -- if you have a decent host that is, lol. If you can run one at home in a manor that is secure (and efficiant) enough for your needs/budget, feel free to give it a go; preferably before your renewal date passes by.
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