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<blockquote data-quote="Aristotle" data-source="post: 2085877" data-attributes="member: 5885">Thanks for the replies! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp;I've slept on it, and I've come up with a few reasons not to do it. Keeping up with patches/fixes is a good addition to the list. I've also priced colocation with other services and found that should I ever leave this job I wouldn't likely be able to afford setting the box up elsewhere.&nbsp;It is a good deal, and the idea of free rack space is really appealing! But I'm thinking what I need instead is just a good shared hosting sollution with professional management and prices I can manage. I'm currently with html.com and I've had great uptime. They've been a great provider all around. It's just the PHP version 4.0.6 thing that's killing me. I gotta have a newer version.&nbsp;I do happen to have a celeron and microATX motherboard on hand (they were going to be used to turn an old Nintendo box into a Nintendo Emulator). I may throw together a cheap box and put it in that rack space as a sandbox where I can familiarize myself more with remote administration and such. It would probably be a neat way to teach myself, and maybe prepare for a time when I do have the means to go colo.&nbsp;Thanks again!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aristotle, post: 2085877, member: 5885"] Thanks for the replies! :) I've slept on it, and I've come up with a few reasons not to do it. Keeping up with patches/fixes is a good addition to the list. I've also priced colocation with other services and found that should I ever leave this job I wouldn't likely be able to afford setting the box up elsewhere. It is a good deal, and the idea of free rack space is really appealing! But I'm thinking what I need instead is just a good shared hosting sollution with professional management and prices I can manage. I'm currently with html.com and I've had great uptime. They've been a great provider all around. It's just the PHP version 4.0.6 thing that's killing me. I gotta have a newer version. I do happen to have a celeron and microATX motherboard on hand (they were going to be used to turn an old Nintendo box into a Nintendo Emulator). I may throw together a cheap box and put it in that rack space as a sandbox where I can familiarize myself more with remote administration and such. It would probably be a neat way to teach myself, and maybe prepare for a time when I do have the means to go colo. Thanks again! [/QUOTE]

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