Once I'm done at the university, I will likely need to discontinue having my own server, as I'll have an electric bill, and a slower network connection. The extend of my shell use tends to be screen+irssi so a system like sdf.lonestar.org would be suitable for that, and I could easily host my website somewhere else, or simply discontinue the use of my own website in the way I use it now.

With the laptop or another low-power device (dectop, anything atom based) as a server I'd probably be okay to host little things out of my home. There's no real reason my personal blog needs to be on a particularly fast connection, except that it makes getting slashdotted so much more fun.