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Hi Everyone.
Looking for some general advice really.....
I've got 3 domains with relatively small websites on (for the time being...they are likely to grow in the near future). All are PHP/MySQL but I'm going to be doing some ASP 3.0/.Net work on one (maybe 2) of them in the near future.
At the moment I'm home-hosting them on an old rig with Windows Server 2003 standard and Exchange Server 2003. However, after discovering that its going to cost me upwards of £275 a YEAR to keep this machine on 24/7 I'm now looking at alternative methods of hosting. This is where I'm getting stumped.....
From what research I've done this morning the options I've got are to get a Windows VPS which would enable me to host all of my PHP/MySQL and ASP 3.0/.NET work and keep my exchange server (if the VPS provider allows custom software installs). Alternatively I can get shared hosting accounts for each site and find an exchange mailbox host.
What should I do? Have I overlooked something??? Any and all comments appreciated
Thanks in advance,
Freakish_05
Edit: I probably should have mentioned that I'm going to be developing a lot of new sites in the near future to build up a PHP/ASP portfolio.
Looking for some general advice really.....
I've got 3 domains with relatively small websites on (for the time being...they are likely to grow in the near future). All are PHP/MySQL but I'm going to be doing some ASP 3.0/.Net work on one (maybe 2) of them in the near future.
At the moment I'm home-hosting them on an old rig with Windows Server 2003 standard and Exchange Server 2003. However, after discovering that its going to cost me upwards of £275 a YEAR to keep this machine on 24/7 I'm now looking at alternative methods of hosting. This is where I'm getting stumped.....
From what research I've done this morning the options I've got are to get a Windows VPS which would enable me to host all of my PHP/MySQL and ASP 3.0/.NET work and keep my exchange server (if the VPS provider allows custom software installs). Alternatively I can get shared hosting accounts for each site and find an exchange mailbox host.
What should I do? Have I overlooked something??? Any and all comments appreciated
Thanks in advance,
Freakish_05
Edit: I probably should have mentioned that I'm going to be developing a lot of new sites in the near future to build up a PHP/ASP portfolio.