I have just been accepted for Microsofts Wevsite Spark program which I mainly got for the tools, Visual Studio, Blend.

I also have a few of my own websites, personal and a couple of business ones. I also work freelance and sometimes I would like a place to just put a demo up of a clients project.

The websites I currently have are all on differnet hosting provders and domain registrars.

The WebsiteSpark comes with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.

It would be really advantagous of me to have all these in one place but also so I have complete control over the database and the environment.

So I am thinking over the next 4-6 months of migrating all this to my own server that I will host from home, or maybe even setup at home and then store in a proper datacentre.

I was wondering what steps I should take and what to be aware of, specifically:

1) having all these different websites on one computer and having the url got to the proper place.

2) Cost effectiveness? Having the server in home as apposed to datacentre. Most solutions I see charge over £1000 a month to have a machine in datacentre.

This is mostly for my own ease of management and shared hosting which I currently have is very limited configuration wise.

Would getting a server in house be beneficial for then upgrading to the cloud?

What measures should I take with my ISP?

I know this is a lot I've asked but just even links to good articles would be good.

Thanks