- Getting a static IP and having your traffic not go through a NAT might be challenging or impossible depending on your home ISP. You can use dynamic DNS in som

- Getting a static IP and having your traffic not go through a NAT might be challenging or impossible depending on your home ISP. You can use dynamic DNS in some cases, but that's meh. - If you want to send email from your server, you'll have a higher chance of it ending up in spam folders because of the residential IP. - Home ISPs don't have SLAs. Your network was down for half a day without warning? Oh well. Things happen. We're sorry. - Same goes for power, it's not as guaranteed at home as it is in a datacenter. Even if you install a UPS for your server, you can't be sure that the ISP's equipment will also work if you lose power.