I’ve mostly finished migrating my web server to depot.
I did this to gain RAM and CPU (mostly the former). My old web server was an Atom D510 based machine with 4G of RAM. Most of the time this wasn’t a huge issue, but it was holding me back from putting more of my own software on it and I couldn’t easily run multiple jails or bhyve. depot has 32G of RAM and an i5-2405S, which should be sufficient for my needs for a while.
It’s worth noting that the big hog on my web server is mysql. I’m looking to get rid of it, but that means replacing my blog since WordPress requires mysql. I already wrote my own gallery software to replace gallery3, I have no reason to believe I can’t replace WordPress with something of my own that is simpler and consumes fewer resources. I’m also growing tired of the security issues that regularly crop up with WordPress; I’m certain I can produce something more secure.