Should I host my webserver at home?

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HostGator or BlueHost and others are on dedicated business IP backbone connections that are designed to carry large amounts of data. I'm talking multi GBps and even TBs per second lines for each datacenter. those connections per line per commit can be tens of thousands per month and most have 2 per ISP and most datacenters have at least 3 ISPs. The industry average is 7 ISPs.

popular ISPs at the IP backbone level are:

Level3
XO
Cogent
Verizon
Abovenet
Hurricane Electric
Telia
TW Telcom

and several others

XO, Cogent, and HE are cheap providers.

However you must be a business to get connections like these or be on the ON-Net for the given area. And be able to afford them.