Hosting from home?

[MeowsePad]

Has anybody ever tried hosting a web site from your own home with Apache or something like that?

I hosted a few of my old forums from my home with Apache. However, I would never do that now due to how easy it has become for anybody to DDoS people. When I hosted things at home, only the elite had the ability to DDoS.

 

[Kaynil]

Never in my life. The closest to that was at school, with an assignment we made a pretend website to learn to use Apache. It was so long ago so I don't really remember much of it. I guess it used to be easier in a way to get away with it before. I definitely wouldn't want to spend money to get the equipment I think I'd need in order to have a website in optimal conditions with the computer on at all times.

For how long did you have yours?

 

[scottp1111]

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[SmallWeb]

Yes, some experience. While it can be fun to do, it's not recommended for production use. As ScottP mentioned, the speed and uptime of a home connection is not suitable for most projects, especially a public project.