[Symbiote]

I host my site on Apache running on an ARM board in my garage.

I'll consider moving to a VM if/when the ARM board eventually fails, but it's been running for 6 years so far. I have 6TB of storage, which mostly serves as a NAS but includes about 200GB of photos for the website.

There is no deployment process; the web root is mounted by NFS on my desktop. I can share large files with people just with "mv" or "ln -s".

> how many 9s do my personal websites actually need?

My router seems to crash every 3-4 months, and I need to reset it. There's around 15-30 minutes of power failure every year. I don't worry about this.

[MarvelousWololo]

Sorry about the ignorance but how do you run it from your garage? What about bandwidth? Could you share the url? Also would you recommend me any guide to get started?

[tty2300]

The usual roadblock in this process is getting ports exposed to the internet. In the best case this can just be done on your router configuration. In the unfortunately common case the ISP blocks you from doing this and the only solution is to change ISP.

[Symbiote]

I've heard of ISPs blocking ports, but not in Europe. I just forward ports 80 and 443 to the server (and pinhole the IPv6 ports) and it's done.

The upstream bandwidth is about 60Mb/s, which is fine for almost everything.

[MarvelousWololo]

How can I do such thing? I'm in Europe as well. Do you have any guide to get me started?

[dewey]

The only thing you have to google for is “Port Forwarding” and it’s usually a few clicks in your router interface. Then you just run the service you want on your computer / NAS / Raspberry Pi and tell your router to forward the port to your service IP / Port. If you have a dynamic IP at home you probably also do have to get a script or something to update your domain records if you want to point a domain to your home service.