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The last thing you want is to host things out of your home computer[1], especially when nowadays you can run a VPS for $2.50 a month [2].

If anything, fifteen years ago (when VPSs where prohibitively expensive) we had a much more open internet than now.

[1]. For security reasons (if someone breaks into your wordpress blog they won't get access to your main computer) and uptime reasons (do you want to keep your computer on all the time? Does your home ISP have an SLA?)

[2]. If you're fine with a static blog, a few cents for AWS/Google/Azure plus CloudFlare should be enough.



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