I did actually toy with the possibility of a seperate locally run AFP or FTP server on one of my own systems, that said however, it would be more of a cool novelty to be running a server on the worlld wide web off an Old World power-tower than having any particularly persuasive benefit.

In any case running an FTP server in any form is likely, whether it be hosted remotely or under my desk, as even though as stated above it isnt exactly a secure protocol these days, by the same token, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by anybody hacking a server full of 20 year old Mac softwares, no sensitive informations to be squandered, no financial benefits to be reaped and nobody standing to benefit in any way from sabotage, and the benefits as far as universal access and efficient transfer go are enough to really offset the infinitesimal risks of using such a protocol, at least in my opinion.