On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > I need to build a budget web server for doing development on small sites. > It will only reside in my apartment. I have not built one in over a decade, > so I'd like some ideas. I am thinking mid-tower with a low end graphics > card since it will more than likely be linux based. I'll have CF and PHP, > Apache as well as MySQL. >
Development I'd do on your desktop computer. For anything you want to show a client I'd use their hosting for it. We never host anything except our own site, which is hosted at VivioTech. All clients must find their own hosting. We usually recommend VivioTech for this, but probably about 50% of clients have their own hosting already, often internal in their offices. I have a long standing policy of not owning any servers and not having any servers in our office to maintain. This means we do not host our own email, web, voicemail, or anything else. If you are just looking to play, get a server and play, but if you are looking to maximize billable hours, my recommendation would be to own no equipment except your desktop and focus on writing code. When you have servers around you end up having to tinker with them, patch them, backup, etc. I'm not 100% sure if you are looking to be semi-retired and play, so maybe buying an actual server makes sense for you. Just giving my input from a billable perspective. All that tinkering is going to generally be unbillable work and can be had for SUPER CHEAP as a SaaS someplace. Lastly, I would highly recommend going to AWEsome Day in April. I went last year and it was a great overview of all the things Amazon Web Services offers. There are moments where it's a little sales-y but overall it was a great introduction to a very large number of concept and capabilities of Amazon AWS - and it's free! http://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day/atlanta/?&trkCampaign=AWSome15ATL&trk=event_awsomeday_2015_namer_607 Erika almost came to this event last time but got the day wrong, which was a little amusing, but probably not as amusing to her.. . :) -Cameron -- Cameron Childress -- p: 678.637.5072 im: cameroncf facebook <http://www.facebook.com/cameroncf> | twitter <http://twitter.com/cameronc> | google+ <https://profiles.google.com/u/0/117829379451708140985> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:373266 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
