Home-based server for hosting a ColdFusion website

[paul_8809]

I just heard of a guy who ran his website from a computer at home and thus avoided having to deal with the issues of shared hosting. Apparently it worked great for him. Has anyone done this before and what would be involved for a coldfusion website? 

[Dave Watts]

I've run CF servers from my office. You can run a dedicated CF server from many ISPs or hosting providers. So, yeah, kinda? When it works, it's good. When you have a hardware problem, it can be ... less good. I'm sure you can get dedicated hardware from most cloud providers today. But you'll be responsible for purchasing the software and hardware, and usually managing it too. In addition to managing the servers themselves, you'll have to manage everything your servers need: firewall,  backup, logs, resource allocation for usage spikes, user and group management, remote access, etc. If anything goes wrong, you'll have to solve it as quickly as possible. You'll have to learn every part of the stack: web server, CF, database, TCP/IP networking, firewall, general server management, hardware diagnostics and repair, etc. It's a lot of work, I can assure you. But you might enjoy it; I did.