General Chat - NON NEOPETS RELATED

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A great money saving solution, or a recipe for disaster?

I'm planning on opening a neopets graphics website, but I havn't got much spare cash to hand over to web hosting companies (especially not $10 a month for a decent host, plus $40 set up fee). I was doing some research and I read somewhere that its possible to host a website from your own computer. We have an old, slow, good-for-nothing spare computer, so I was wondering if it would be a good idea to clear out all the private files and such (I am aware there could be some potential security risks), and host the website from that computer?