I've always wondered whether I could host a Website on my home computer, and tonight learned about some really good reasons why it may not be a good idea. Testing it may work, but actually hosting it won't work. Anyway, would be interesting to have thoughts by others on this. Are you hosting a Website on your home computer?
These are the reasons I found why hosting a Website on a home computer may not be a workable solution:
1. Your ISP may have some terms of service that prevent you from hosting websites.
2. You probably have a dynamic IP address, which would make domain mapping a challenge.
3. Issue of bandwidth – depending on your broadband connection, your upstream bandwidth may be significantly slower than your downstream bandwidth.
4. Risk of denial of service attacks, hacking, and port filtering by your ISP (even if they allow you to run a web server there’s almost no chance that your web server will be able to send outgoing email messages, for example), and downtime due to reboots, etc
These are the reasons I found why hosting a Website on a home computer may not be a workable solution:
1. Your ISP may have some terms of service that prevent you from hosting websites.
2. You probably have a dynamic IP address, which would make domain mapping a challenge.
3. Issue of bandwidth – depending on your broadband connection, your upstream bandwidth may be significantly slower than your downstream bandwidth.
4. Risk of denial of service attacks, hacking, and port filtering by your ISP (even if they allow you to run a web server there’s almost no chance that your web server will be able to send outgoing email messages, for example), and downtime due to reboots, etc