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Is it feasible to self host websites for small businesses? I'm trying to do some research on the amount of infrastructure and stuff you have to know from a security standpoint... I'm fine with building and hosting stuff locally for me but I'm tempted to move to hosting some of my business sites as well.

Does anyone have experience and can give me some advice one way or the other?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

As someone who's set up and managed critical business applications I would say that it's perfectly fine to host your own provided you have decent hardware that's capable of doing what you need and as a dedicated business line to provide connection.

If you try to run mission critical business applications on a home internet connection you're going to have a really bad fucking time. But hosting business critical applications on appropriate hardware and a 1Gb/s business connection with an SLA is going to meet 95-98%% of all business applications.

If something like that sounds expensive or too difficult to do then it's too expensive or too difficult for you to host yourself. Just go with a provider and sidestep self-host.