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You'll probably find that your home-connection is asymetrical, meaning you can can download "fast" and upload "slowly" at home. That same asymmetry will be present in reverse for your visitors.

If you ignore the issue of speed, and reliability, it should work just fine. But honestly it is probably better to host elsewhere. A single cheap VM could host 20+ websites/projects so incrementally adding another is essentially free.

Having offsite backups, monitoring, etc. Would be a lot easier to achieve with a commercial provider.

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