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Is it feasible to self host websites for small businesses? I'm trying to do some research on the amount of infrastructure and stuff you have to know from a security standpoint... I'm fine with building and hosting stuff locally for me but I'm tempted to move to hosting some of my business sites as well.

Does anyone have experience and can give me some advice one way or the other?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, I got it. Yeah, it makes sense, WP.com is moderately likely to keep working fine probably, it's just that it would make me nervous at this stage. I just don't think he can do anything to really "punish" Bluehost if they're using his software in some way that displeases him. WPEngine's mistake was getting tangled up into a business relationship where they were depending on listings and APIs and things. Although, it probably seemed like a good idea until their business counterpart went off the deep end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Agree. I'd be nervous about it too. Mullenweg seems pretty unhinged at this point.