> Should someone interested in self-hosting do it from a literal PC in your basement, configured as a server? It's a good place to start/test. But don't open y

> Should someone interested in self-hosting do it from a literal PC in your basement, configured as a server? It's a good place to start/test. But don't open your firewall: do all of your testing on your internal network. You really don't want to open your network to the kind of problems that can occur while you're learning. When you're ready to really host things then you should rent a cheap shared instance, or maybe a low-priced dedicated server. You can pick up something decent for $10/mo. That's not much if you're skilled enough (eg, employable enough) to learn how to self-host. For your internal network you can use a pi-hole to set up all of your DNS entries so you can even visit "http://example.com http://example.com" and have it point to an IP on your LAN.