[mknocker]

I am thinking about doing something similar. Out of curiosity, do you use a reverse proxy web server to protect from malicious attacks ? That`s probably the only part I would think of leaving in the cloud if I were to host my own servers at home.

[Syonyk]

What's different about a box hanging out in the cloud with open ports, vs at home or in a colo with open ports?

I use CloudFlare to front most of my web stuff for bandwidth diversion - my blog is a purely static Jekyll site, and I've told CF to "cache everything," so if I get hit with a spike of traffic, it isn't hitting my server (much - comments are still locally hosted with a Discourse forum integration, but if that's overloaded it doesn't block page render).

My home bandwidth simply isn't up to hosting. But if I can ever get someone to tap the fiber a quarter mile from my place and give me a drop, I'd move to hosting at home.