{"id":222,"date":"2022-10-15T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2022-10-15T00:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T00:51:25","slug":"14-pros-and-cons-of-owning-your-web-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/web-design\/14-pros-and-cons-of-owning-your-web-server\/","title":{"rendered":"14 pros and cons of owning your web server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Running your own web server for your website has allot of pros and cons here is 14 pros and cons of owning your own web server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Pros<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>You can use any type of machine to run the website and it can be as powerful as you want it to be.<\/li><li>You do not have a space limit on the drive or email space.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You can run any type of programming language you want.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You can have as many processes running at the same time.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You do not share a server with other people.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You are in control of everything that is running on the server.&nbsp;<\/li><li>saves money from purchasing a web host from your web provider.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Cons<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The security is up to the owner.&nbsp;<\/li><li>It is possible for security to not be high enough and can get hacked.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You need to do all the maintenance and security and hope you can catch anything bad happening.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Taking lots of time to self-service the webserver. For a paid web server you have the host maintain security&nbsp;<\/li><li>Running a server from your house can leave your internet network vulnerable to attacks from outsiders on the internet.&nbsp;<\/li><li>If the power or Internet goes down the server will shut down.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The server is not distributed can cause long page load times.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running your own web server for your website has allot of pros and cons here is 14 pros and cons of owning your own web server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[55,54,22,57,52,53,56],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/network-cable-ethernet-computer-159304.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rodneysgraphics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}