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Originally Posted by KevinP73 View Post
Other than intial investment of hardware whats the biggest downside to having ones own servers?
The servers are cheap.

Go price out a T1 and a real Firewall appliance.

Your cable modem and a Linksys ain't gonna cut it. Besides most home broadband providers either block or monitor for excessive port 80 activity and will shut you down if they think you are running a web server.
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