I own a software design business and have recently has to cut my budget. I currently pay about $300 a month for hosting/database/project management hosting etc services and I would like to reduce this drastically.
I would like to work on a website project and I sort of need to have my own development, QA and Production environments set up. Problem is I am now on a budget and so can not afford the high end VPS or Dedicated Server hosting package at this time. I would also like to have my own Subversion server hosting, as well as gantt hosting and cruisecontrol hosting so I can work on multiple projects with different teams without having to pay extra each time I have to add people to the team.
I have been fiddling with the idea of hosting my own subversion, dev and Qa sites, at least on my local machine/server and was wondering if this is a good idea. I currently have a Quad machine with about 5GB memory to boot. I am more a programmer than I am a server administrator and would welcome any advise you have for me. I am concerned about security issues but I am willing to learn what it is I may need to in order to cut costs.
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