You might have realized by now that building a lab isn't as simple as you might think. For those who are interested in how I built the lab that I used during the writing of this book, you can follow this detailed guide.
I chose to rent a dedicated server from OVH. This was for the following reasons:
- For my on-site training, I needed a lot of resources (256 GB of RAM or more)
- I did not need to run the server all the time
- I did not want to pay any setup fees
- I needed to be able to order as many public IP addresses as necessary for the project
- There were months when I didn't need to run the lab at all
- There were other months in which I needed a different hardware platform with different resources
- I needed to access the lab from anywhere
Based on these requirements, I decided that it did not make sense to use my hardware because the costs...