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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/vivianvixxxen on 2025-07-10 00:41:53+00:00.
I maintain about a half-dozen simple landing pages for businesses of friends and family and I'd like to save them a bunch of money by just moving things to something in the house. At most, across all the landing pages, we're looking at no more than a few hundred visits a day, tops (and that'd be an outlier event).
In my research into this topic, I feel like the common wisdom is "don't do it." But assuming I'm using basic security best practices, what are the drawbacks/dangers of hosting websites from home?
Currently, as a personal project, I'm hosting one website on the ol' world wide web. I have just port 443 open, ssh access locked with sha-256 rsa-2048, and using cloudlfare's dns proxy for the site.
So far, as near as I can tell, I've had no issues. This has led me to think that I could go ahead an self-host several more websites. Is this a bad idea? A fine idea? Should I use Cloudlfare Tunnels? Something else?
I'm in that late beginner stage where I know enough to know I don't know what the hell I'm doing. Any help is appreciated.
edit for extra context: I'm currently working off an old Raspberry Pi 3, though if I go forward with adding websites, I'd probably shell out for one of the new Raspberry Pi 5 16gb. That is, unless someone has a better suggestion.