Jeff Woelker : Chicago SEO, SEM, and Social Media Consultant

For all you aspiring entrepreneurs out there who thought you might be able to save a few bucks doing web hosting from your home computer via Comcast, think again. From the Prohibited Uses and Activities section of their terms of service:

(Prohibited uses include, but are not limited to, using the Service, Customer Equipment, or the Comcast Equipment to:) run programs, equipment, or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises LAN (Local Area Network), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited services and servers include, but are not limited to, e-mail, Web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;

From what I have seen, the only way to host anything is via their Comcast Business account. Just wanted to save you the headache of setting up a home web/file server and then finding out you can’t do anything with it.

Doh!