Kris and I have an old Windows machine that wasn’t being used for anything, so I bought a 5TB hard drive for it, installed Linux, Apache, PHP, and MySQL and we will be using it as an in house server. The 5TB is most likely overkill since it will be used only as an in house testing server, but you never know when we’ll need to use it as a cloud storage solution, or even a media server, not everything can be on Netflix afterall.
At this point I need to make sure Apache, MySQL, and PHP all run at startup and figure out some sort of admin panel. Plesk and cPanel are out of the question since they are paid, so I’ll need to figure out a free solution and then how to install it. With any luck I will have it installed by Friday and have a few test sites setup to test things out.
