Website best practice (1 reply)

I want to build a website for my company and put it somewhere. I can get a static IP address from my ISP for $5 per month and have my own server. Eventually I would like to have several sites on this server, or maybe even have client sites on there that I write for them in WB and host. However, the speed of my connection is restricted by the ISP. The maximum speed on my FTTH is 1G up and 1G down (for the right amount of money each month, of course...). I have a separate office with attached area where I can put the server.

For equipment I have choices galore... I have plenty of IBM and Dell PowerEdge 1 and 2U servers laying around. These are REAL servers, redundant power supplies, RAID arrays, dual processors... most of them I got when Cabales upgraded their store servers 7 years ago. But they max out at 4 gigs of memory. Or I have a Dell T7500 workstation class machine with dual Xeons, 12/24 cores/hyperthreaded and 96 GB of ECC memory if I need a bigger machine.

Looking for WB best practice here. Should I go the server at home route or look for something off site? What are the pros and cons here if I have a server? Things like maybe I can also run a skype server, or conference server, or a sharepoint server, that sort of stuff. Would a VPS be more advantageous? One thing I worry about with VPS is they can cut your business off for any or no reason, real or imagined, and that would sink my client sites at the same time... might be too much of a risk.

Opinions?

Thanks in advance,