I have hosted all my websites on a server at home since 1993 until 2021. I never had any downtime or problems.
I ran a ISP and datacenter from my home for a decade as well.
Nowadays I have a $2 per month VPS to forward a static IP at 1 Gbps to both my home servers and a failover server at a friends home.
Works fine up to 600 Mbps sustained web traffic. Its been cheaper than colocation of dedicated servers and much cheaper than hosting in the cloud.
In 1990 I started the first ISP in the Netherlands, I had a dialup modem bank in a spare room after I installed the first hundred phone lines from the trunk line across the street. My backbone was upgraded to a 2 Mbps custom modem to the rail way station nearby. From there we had 2 Mbps modems at every rail way station from Utrecht to Amsterdam and eventually all the way across the country up to Groningen.
I upgraded to a fiber optic line around 1996 straight to the first free internet exchange in the world in Amsterdam, that we started ourselves. There we peered and had transit fibers.
Now I'm laying my own fiber backbone and house to house power router network [1] starting at many internet exchanges (one per country). We combine that with HVDC electricity backbones interconnecting solar and wind to build the first community owned Enernet with 10-80 Gbps internet.
Join us to start Enernet in your neighbourhood and give the internet back to the endusers while also saving each household over $2000 in heating and electricity bills per year.
