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I once basically did just that, besides the image dithering. I ran a small blog off a Raspberry Pi, only using Markdown files and something to render them to HTML. I used my own IP address, which I know you're not technically supposed to do but in 15 years I've never had an ISP crack down on me for it, and had a script that would run periodically to update the A record for my domain in Route 53. (since my IP was dynamic)

Whether you're doing it for energy purposes or not, it's a fun project because it feels a bit like sticking it to the man, since we're used to always hosting our sites on someone else's machine.



What is the reason for not using your own ip?


I believe it goes against most terms of service agreements with non-commercial isp plans.


My guess is that this is mostly a way for them to object if you start using too much bandwidth. Most ISP's "guarantee" way more bandwidth than they can actually provide on a daily basis. If you're hosting a website that gets low traffic, normally, they probably will not only not know, but not care. Just my guess.


For several years starting in 2010 I ran my personal website off a Pentium III Thinkpad running Plan 9 sitting on the floor behind my desk. I wrote the web server in Go; it was a "hybrid" in that it served mostly static files, but in the blog subdirectory it would render Markdown to HTML.

It worked great! I eventually migrated to a VPS when the hardware started to get too flaky with age (and years of accumulated dust sucked through the fan inlet)




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