@Gifted, I want to thank you for this post. I've been looking into starting a faucet and your information has been invaluable.

I looked at your file for starting a Xapo faucet, can this be installed on a hosting service like bluehost or hostgator or does it have to be on a server like AWS?
AWS seems like it will be an extra expense and that would be against your suggestion to make a profit 1st before spending any money on it. Xapo seems to be the best chance of being profitable.

 I already installed faucetinabox on a subdomain and its in a iframe on a wordpress site so I can add sidebars and stuff.
Does it make sense to just run with the faucetinbox until I turn a profit then switch over to Xapo or start an additional faucet using Xapo?

Thank you for your response.