Thoughts on hosting this site from home.

As of today, this site has been hosted directly from my home for two years!I hope the transition was seamless enough, and its behaviour consistent enough, that no regular visitor would have noticed the change unless I'd mentioned it.(A note on terminology: hosting a site oneself rather than through a hosting service is commonly termed "self-hosting." I avoid the term because, strictly speaking, it implies a site that hosts itself. "A self-cleaning oven" means "an oven that cleans itself," not "an oven you clean yourself" – nor should "self-hosting" mean "a site you host yourself." If a single word is needed, I'd go with "home-hosting.")The dawn of my home on the Web was October 17, 1997. In other words, though home-hosting is still considered in some respects preferable to commonplace dependency on a hosting service, not to mention appropriately nerdy for a Web enthusiast, it took me ages even to set out to achieve it. Perahps the main reason for the delay? Perhaps you've discovered…