My home box as my own host?

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Published on 2010-05-05T22:19:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 0:48 UTC
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Hi all,

I have a 512 kb/s DSL service at home. I do not have a static IP but I can get one if I pay some extra to my ISP.

Now, if I get the static IP, can I make my home box act as my internet host? What else do I need?

Thanks

P.S. I know that if at all possible, the site I make available this way might be slow, that is alright, my question is if it is possible at all.

Edit:
I need this for very small traffic. I am a php developer and for my projects I am often asked to provide a demo. I currently use a free hosting for this purpose but it is down most of the time and support is non-existent. So I thought to set-up my home computer as my test server.
With this please note that:

  1. I will only occasionally have 'visitors' and that will be one or possibly two visitors at any time.
  2. These demos, are to showcase functionality, so no big images are served and page views will normally generate under 100KB of traffic.

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