Hi, Thank you for all your insight and help getting my home server up and running!! As you may or may not know I am a PHP developer. Over the years I have had ample opportunity to work on LAMP servers. I was exposed to a lot and I have a ton to learn. I currently have a VPS in a data center and a full service PHP hosting server in my home office that runs Let's Encrypt/BIND/Postfix/Dovecot as well. I got it to work and need to get back and figure out how it works. I have more questions than answers. This morning the thought popped into my mind that running my own production server might be possible. I'm thinking I can ditch Plesk at some point and run on the bare metal (VPS). I know I have a ton to learn. The home server is great for learning. I would never host a production website out of my home. I bought 3 books - Bind/Postfix/Dovecot and have subscribed to those lists as well. I'm thinking I may be able to learn enough in 6 months to manage a VPS w/o Plesk. Then, maybe later I can run a hardware server. I am talking about a virtual PHP host running Ubuntu LTS, LAMP, Let's Encrypt, BIND, Postfix, Dovecot, and possibly some webmail app. Not sure of anything else I would need. Is there more? We can throw in learning Apache SPF and NGINX. 1) First question is this a reasonable idea or am I crazy? 2) 2nd question is what skills would I need? Thanks!! Keith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss