My Virtual Machine Lab
All over the internet I've read or seen posts that state the best way to get IT experience is to build your own home lab. There are a multitude of ways to go about this. As I did my research, I found that the best way for me to have a home lab is to create a virtual machine (VM). The advantage to having a virtual machine home lab is the cost is a lot lower. You don't have to buy switches or cords or have multiple computers. Another advantage is you save a lot of physical space. You can do everything from one computer. If you want to learn more about what a home lab is, I suggest this video from IT Career Questions What is a HomeLab? How can you build your own and why it's useful! - YouTube . My first thought was to set up virtual machines on AWS. AWS is Amazon web services. They have something called AWS free tier where you get one free year of AWS with 750 hours a month. This was the first route I took, but it did not take long before I got an email that said