The utility of home servers and server-like devices is limited by upstream bandwidth on asymmetric connections (virtually all home broadband except some fiber-b

The utility of home servers and server-like devices is limited by upstream bandwidth on asymmetric connections (virtually all home broadband except some fiber-based services). Not IP addressing. Dynamic DNS has been around for decades and provides a solution if you really want to run a home server behind NAT. If someone wanted to market a home server box, they would just need to implement something like DDNS... and Plex basically does just that. But most people have limited upstream bandwidth, such that it's impractical to serve much content from home, except maybe to yourself as a 'road warrior' via VPN, or video streams via Plex, stuff like that. If home broadband was symmetric, even with NAT, we would see many more applications taking advantage of that upstream bandwidth.