I've been there & have done that, thank you ;) For my own services it's okay to host them from home but "the web" just doesn't work like this anymore. Do some

I've been there & have done that, thank you ;) For my own services it's okay to host them from home but "the web" just doesn't work like this anymore. Do something big and you'll want to get things like DDoS protection - talk to customers about projects and just realize that they won't scale on your mini server at home while the internet connection is much too slow and unreliable. I have started like you describe it and I learned some things on the way but the industry and the web have changed. Of course there is tiny companies who can still get their static website from a freelancer guy but this guy has a lot more responsibility and tasks to fulfill nowadays. In my opinion back in the 90ies you could play around in a naive way without getting hurt or hurting anyone seriously. Today it's about a lot of cash, there is more laws, censorship and other malicious entities (go back in time and tell the people about bitcoin-mining in their browser and DDoS attacks against centralized services like CDNs that bring down half of the WWW). Put a server on the web that isn't hardened properly and have a look at the logs - this is some new level in comparison.