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It’ll be vastly cheaper and easier to just get hosting somewhere.
Wordpress hosting (edit: THIRD PARTY Wordpress hosting, Bluehost and Hostinger are decent I think, see below) is fine for most small businesses and starts at about $10/mo. You can go fancier and more reliable and go up to $30/mo or something, or if you really need your own VPS you can go with Vultr or Hostinger and get a pretty similar price range for pretty much whatever you want to do.
I think the only reason to self-host is if you have some crazy special hardware or legal issue, or your own dev stuff that you don’t want/need to push to “the cloud” to put it online. Otherwise it’s such a buyer’s-choice market that it’s hard to justify.
Yeah... and unless you really, really enjoy configuring your own stuff and tinkering, a hosting service is much easier.
I happen to be insane, and enjoy that stuff. And it's not a business server (well, not anything big anyway).
Yeah. I've run plenty of services from a computer sitting in someone's office, or in my living room, while they're in-production-while-in-development. Sometimes it makes sense. But it's just not something you want to deliberately aim for as the solution. What if the power goes out? What if your motherboard dies? What if the toilet overflows when you're not there, and floods the place?
Just get a dedicated service and pay them their $10/month and have them worry about all that crap for you.