Note: your ISP might cut your account, and this might violate your home insurance contract — depending on jurisdiction.
At least where I live there’s a stupid amount of red tape for these things.
At least where I live there’s a stupid amount of red tape for these things.
And your home insurance will not know/care if you're operating a desktop-sized computer or even a single server (it is perfectly fine and expected a developer might bring an actual server home for troubleshooting). Home insurance only cares if you're running dozens of them.
You should be able to do this hassle free, and you probably can get away with it, but you may find yourself in a grey area later.
It's just one of many types of red tape that stiffles innovation.
It actually is in some jurisdictions, even if of course no one cares (except of course insurances looking for reasons to refuse a claim).