Is it possible to keep a server at home?

Question

Network administration

There is a site with a traffic of 20-30TB per month, DDOS protection via CloudFlare + CDN, now I'm standing at OVH.
And now it became interesting to get a new experience, and keep the server at home for half a year, until I save up for an apartment.
The Internet at home is good, 1Gb / s, ping in the CIS countries is not more than 60ms, IP is constant, uptime is 99.73% per year, and I asked the provider if it is possible to pump so much traffic - he allows, says the main thing is that there are no attacks, and asked advertising.
For 2 years I don’t remember when the power was turned off for more than 20 minutes.
So, what other pitfalls can be so to speak?

Answer 1

Take into account and consider: 1) Calculate
the cost of electricity
the provider's hub at the house is still de-energized.
3) With a traffic of ~ 1 TB per day, it turns out hmm ... ~ 0.7 Gb per minute. More annoying, of course, is the number of simultaneous connections than the lack of a channel.
4) If you live alone, then this is buzzing, more noise from a normal server is very noticeable.
5) The organization of a quick protection against DDoS is difficult - after all, changing the IP in a couple of minutes will not fit, and it will be impossible to chop off the attacking hosts on the fly on the apnode. And the channel will fall just instantly, you don’t have a reserve from where to get it through the channel.
Conclusion: if this is a server of online toys that brings in some income covering expenses and inconveniences, while there is no criticality in losing online for half an hour - a day, then it’s normal if customers don’t look for you in order to lynch you, I know such gamers who are hooked).
If this is a server serving something serious, ala business applications and having a serious clientele - IMHO it will cost you more, sit in the cloud.

Answer 2

Realistically, if you prepare for the risks.
Some of them have already been described here, there about hosting a house:
How best to organize website hosting?
If we imagine that the provider has an ideal connection, and the server has a UPS and the electricity is rarely turned off at home, I see DDoSs as the main problem and the common practice of many home providers is to simply nullroute the subscriber's IP address at the slightest congestion of the channel so that the attack does not affect networks for other subscribers.
There must be something else in front of the home server, an intermediate frontend, which will take the brunt of it and hide the home IP.
The service can also be run on PC equipment, which today is quite quiet with a normal cooler. It will turn out cheaper, and you can even buy two or three pieces of iron, spreading the roles, and making everything fault-tolerant within the house.

Answer 3

1. Make sure the channel is balanced. As a rule, at home, everything is geared towards download speed, with a reduced upload speed.
2. As soon as you start downloading yourself (movies or torrents) - the speed of site visitors sags.
3. Noisy. Incl. and at night.
4. The light was most likely cut off more often and with the Internet (both with the provider and local with your equipment) there were problems more often. But you just didn't know about it until you had a server. Sometimes I come home - I see a reset clock (they are networked without a battery) or broken connections. That is, failures were in my absence. It is not uncommon to have to reboot the router at home. And a computer sometimes.
5. A house can never be compared with a CDN in terms of speed.
PS:
Well, what are your expenses, that hosting does not allow you to save up for an apartment.
I would carefully look at what is there with the software on the server.
I have 50 terabytes quietly pumping 800 ruble VDS.

Answer 4

Yes, no, I kept servers at home all my life and nothing bad happened, except for electricity bills.

Answer 5

Here the guys assembled a small data center in an apartment: hsdn.org
You can see how it all developed: gallery.hsdn.org/
How the server zone was assembled: sobek.su/Media/ file "HSDN Server Room Construction.avi"

Answer 6

> 20-30TB
If we are talking about Russia, then it is unrealistic, they will immediately come running to whine and disconnect for "inappropriate use of the connection" or what kind of backdoor they have in the contract to disconnect such clients.

Answer 7

The most underwater place (if the issue with the provider and symmetrical channel and uplink is resolved) - only DDoS

Answer 8

I also do hosting on my home PC.
Six months have passed since I started, but no one has complained yet.
Don't worry about blackouts and site crashes.
I worked for a company that provided hosting services.
Even when the hosting was turned off for some short time, the clients did not leave.
PS So far, I keep my site at the Beget. If there are problems at home, I can write on the site that I am working on their elimination.