My web site (taoofmac.com) used to be hosted at home behind a DSL line. I ran it on anything from an NSLU2 (look it up, it was one of the first easy-to procure,

My web site (taoofmac.com) used to be hosted at home behind a DSL line. I ran it on anything from an NSLU2 (look it up, it was one of the first easy-to procure, easily hackable ARM machines) to PHP+MySQL on Windows Server (don't ask), and after a while I had Snort and all sorts of stuff running alongside to secure it. Whenever I was linked from Slashdot I would pretty much lose connectivity, so I started using Coral CDN, moved it to a colo, then to Linode, and on and on through some 6 or 7 providers as technology changed and I tried new things. It's been 20 years now (just wrote about that last week), and I sort of miss those days, but on the other hand I really don't--keeping the server alive and secure (even in Linode) was a bit of a chore, so the writing was pretty much on the wall that it would eventually become just a set of static pages on an Azure storage account. Zero worry about keeping the site secure, no runtime issues, and plenty of opportunities to be creative (like this: https://taoofmac.com/static/graph https://taoofmac.com/static/graph) And boy, do I have plenty of in-house web servers and Raspberry Pis to make up for it--but none are public, and I just have a couple of cores spinning on each major provider for toy projects.