I've always had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to get into it but never really did other than maybe hosting a few sites for family or what not and it was all manually setup and managed.

But I'm thinking of revisiting it as with inflation and overall cost of living my day job is just not enough and having a bit of extra money coming in on the side could be nice. I would write a custom control panel and setup an environment where everything is mostly automated and I just need to monitor it, tend to support tickets etc.

Question is, is it even worth trying to get into this now days? Especially with things like cloud pretty much taking over, and the fact that less people even make websites now days, lot of organizations just have FB pages and other social media presence.

My goal would be to provide a fairly basic LAMP hosting environment, nothing super crazy, is there even still a market for this? I would make sure to implement some basic level of redundancy/failover, backups etc and all the basic stuff one would expect from a web host to try to meet the 5 nines.

My dream would be to run my own mini data centre and have full physical access to the hardware so I can setup a more advanced environment but that's getting way ahead of myself. At first I would be renting a couple dedicated servers to run stuff and then go from there.