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After looking at the prices for hosting service dedicated servers, running my own server looks pretty attractive. For example, a dedicated server with assisted service plan for only 1 year (through GoDaddy) will cost almost THREE TIMES what it would cost to buy the same server and run it myself. Slicehost is a little better, but not much.
While I'm interested in learning how to administrate a server, I have no experience whatsoever. I'm somewhat familiar with linux, know a little about setting up permissions and access files, and have trivial experience with apache, but other than that I admittedly don't really know what I'm doing. Will I be able to figure it out on my own, and is it worth the time? I hear it's a major hassle...
By the way, I don't currently have a site that requires a dedicated server, but in about 6 months I plan to launch a multimedia-oriented site that (hopefully) will. I was thinking I'd use the time between now and then to figure out server administration. Even if it doesn't work out I'll still be able to use the server for my other personal sites.
What do you think?
While I'm interested in learning how to administrate a server, I have no experience whatsoever. I'm somewhat familiar with linux, know a little about setting up permissions and access files, and have trivial experience with apache, but other than that I admittedly don't really know what I'm doing. Will I be able to figure it out on my own, and is it worth the time? I hear it's a major hassle...
By the way, I don't currently have a site that requires a dedicated server, but in about 6 months I plan to launch a multimedia-oriented site that (hopefully) will. I was thinking I'd use the time between now and then to figure out server administration. Even if it doesn't work out I'll still be able to use the server for my other personal sites.
What do you think?