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OK, tangental but concerning. According to that Comcast quote, are you not actually allowed to host a personal website using bandwidth that you pay for? Or is it specifically forbidding "public" web hosting, where "anybody" is allowed to host their own sites?

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I think it's the former; you can't host any site that is supposed to be accessed by the general public, only something like a control panel for your NAS or security system or such.

This serves to protect them technically (residential systems are not designed to withstand a large number of inbound requests), legally (you can't sue them for failing to serve your site) and of course to promote their more expensive business lines.

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