i understand the appeal and benefits of running at at home server, but I just use a hosting company

pay up front for 2 years of service, get free domain renewal and proxy and it boils down to less than 5 bucks a month for quality uptime on a fast pipe and let someone else who is obligated by contract do all the bs maintenance work

yea maybe I cant run my own quake server with it, but being connected to a linux box with ssh and all the usual stuff on a oc480,0001,1000,8 and hassle free just works better for me