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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aristotle" data-source="post: 2084577" data-attributes="member: 5885">Okay, I'm trying to make a decision and I thought I would come to the experts... or at least I hope some of the experts see this and can offer some insight.I have a small site hosted by a hosting company, but the host isn't willing to run the versions of PHP and MySQL that I need for certain scripts. I understand that. It's a shared hosting solution, so other people have to be considered.My work hosts servers for various organizations and I was basically offered to slide a machine in the racks there. They'd set me up with a connection/IP, and I wouldn't really need to worry about paying so long as I work there (so long as my server wasn't taking up absurd amounts of resources I would imagine). Of course I would have to take care of all of the administration of the server itself.I'm not so oblivious as to think these things run themselves. I worked in the NOC at cable&wireless for a year, so I know it can get bad. But I don't know how much responsability/hassle it is from the owner's side of things. And I don't have any experience dealing with remote server administration.Of course the free colocation/bandwidth seems too good to pass up in comparison to regular hosting fees, but I'm worried I'll be getting in over my head.</blockquote>