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Originally Posted by Amdinistrator
I know this may sound as a broad question, but since I'm not an administrator forgive me. When is the breaking point, if ever, to consider buying a server and hosting sites from my home instead of renting?
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I would consider a couple of factors before hosting at home.
1. How often do you experience power outages at home? Could you set up a stable environment for your server?
2. How reliable is your single source internet provider?
3. How mission critical is your website, or data that you are hosting?
4. What are your future growth initiatives?
If you did have the capital to purchase your own server, I would always recommend a secure data center environment. But then again, that's what we do : )