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      pmwoodward3
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      Hello,

      I'm about to start up a small website hosting company and I'm just wondering what you all thought would be a better route to take.

      Either I go with two ITX (quad core i5 w/ 8gb DDR3 & 3 total nic ports each) or should I just have two pfsense VMs on two of my main servers (36gb ram ECC 2x 6-core xeon, most have at least 6 nic ports, but a few have 8 ).

      I currently have the hardware to go in either direction, but I don't know in practice what will be the best way to go about this. I don't currently have an estimate on the amount of users i'll be having, but seeing as it's web server traffic I suspect my hardware requirements will be a lot lower than people who are setting up their pfsense for more of an ISP deployment.

      Any ideas/guidance?

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