Originally Posted by
23skidoo
I've also thought about JDT's hosting your own web server, but every time I bring it up to friends who know way more about it than I, they end up saying there are too many possible security issues unless you really know what you are doing.
Firewalls and port forwarding on your router are your friend here. Run your web server on a separate machine from where you store and work on your personal stuff, and set your firewall to limit access from that machine to other machines on your network.