Home-based server for hosting a ColdFusion website

@Dave Watts - Amazing list of the tech stack needed to host a website and honest answer about the amount of work to host something yourself.  Something I can add is staying up to date on the security updates for all software and hardware you are using.  I just talked with someone who got hit with a zero day exploit of a firewall a year ago.  They had staff supporting their servers, but imagine if it's only 1 person.  You may not know about the exploit and then you have someone in your network for months or years doing anything they want without you knowing.  Another story for you, we just mograted someone to our xByte Cloud from another provider.  They had someone in their server for years getting credit card information.  The other provider didn't lock down certain areas and that allowed the hacker to add their own webpage through a form on the website and that then created a backdoor.  We discovered it and went through a deep investigation to make sure we removed it and made sure everything was secured.  

While I regularly warn about the shortcomings of shared hosting - if you have a website that handles any kind of sensitive information or even logins, I would recommend it over hosting it yourself.  Only caveat is that you need to use a hosting provider that knows what they are doing.  If you just have a blog or some kind of website that just displays information, then there is less security risk.  If you do go down that road, then make sure it is separate from the rest of your network so you don't allow a back door into more of your data.