Most of you don't know me very well or my past, so they likely don't know the answers to those questions stated above.
Chris - yes that's a good idea and I've done that for some things like my car websites which are mostly only of interest to me and a few other crazy VW fans
THe problem with those sites as they could eventually disappear and you could loose your data.
I've been hosting some sort of public service from my home PC since 1995 without more than a few days interruption. I use my website as a way to run my climbing website with loads of photos and some climbing journals. It's mostly for me and secondarily for friends/family so I can direct people to my pictures or a file.
I enjoy playing around at HTML and hosting various info and media. It's a little bit of fun for me. Granted, I don't keep much of it up to date, but it's still fun.
With ADSL BellAliant, I had no ports blocked and could run this webservice. It wasn't hurting anyone, regardless of the usage policy. Now that I've been forced to take FiberOp15/15, for some reason, they've configured things so as to block my use of port 80 and some other ports. I tried port mapping and it didn't work, but I'm no longer a computer geek. I was from the early 90's until a few years after college, but kinda left it be for pursuit of better career, social and mainly rock climbing.
So that's way too much information, but anyhow... The site has returned in basic form (5 MB worth of webspace provided by BellAliant for free).
http://climbnb.mine.nu/
http://freudian.homeip.net/
Not many pix, but my logs and some pix of new routes are online until I find another way.