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Originally Posted by yongkimleng
Do consider deploying your own server too. Though it may be the most costly, the experience is very good as you also learn about online server security issues, managing resources such as disk space, memory, bandwidth and user accounts. Not to mention you can run other stuff you've ever dreamt off like media streaming servers (FRC video streams?), game servers, and have total control over your databases and such  |
That's a LOT more expensive. We got lucky at one point and we had computers donated to function as servers. The problem we ran into there was that we had them set up in the school, but their network was very restricted to access. We couldn't view the site from in the school (MAJOR problem) and they wouldn't allow us access to the computers to install PHP or MySQL or anything more than a basic webserver setup.
If you're able to afford the server AND have access to actually do work on it, it's worth it, but we have since decided to turn the servers into power computers for A/V editing and effectively remove them from the district network restrictions.