Yikes Eric!! That is a lot beyond what I am shooting for. Thanks for sharing!! On 2021-07-11 11:55, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss wrote: > You can also use virtual environments like VMWARE. I did this for a > long time here at home and had success with it. I had one bare metal > machine with 32 GB of ram, 2 core CPU and half a terabyte of storage > spread across 10 drives. That machine ran easily 8 VMWare instances > with linux ubuntu being the host system. One hardware lan interface > was left unconfigured in the host OS and then configured inside a > VMWARE instance running OpenBSD. A virtual lan bridge was also > configured connected to the other external lan (configured by the host > OS). The virtual lan connected as the second interface to the OpenBSD > instance and I used that for DNS, firewall and DHCP for the internal > lan. Several other instances included linux for a web server, an NFS > server for NAS operations, a remote windows XP instance that could be > logged into by any of the workstations in the house, one instance that > acted as the PXE server for thin client stuff and several other > instances including one for remote compiling jobs. Frankly, if you > don’t have a lot of hardware laying around, this is the best possible > use of your hardware to run multiple tasks. > > Hope this gives you an idea or two. :) > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Infrastructure > support division. > > >> On Jul 11, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss >> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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