Most residential ISPs in the US explicitly prohibit "servers", which is not just listening ports, but also services running over VPNs or tunnels. If you upload too much data, even on unlimited plans, you risk disconnection.
It's an entirely corrupt racket, but they're the only game in town, so you'd best not jeopardize your only option for high speed internet.
Additionally, your home connection IP is PII that points uniquely and unambiguously at the place that you and your children sleep unguarded at night. Don't draw attention to it.
Has this been your experience? Even the worst ISPs I've had never cared about the volume of upload. I also self hosted a blog for a couple of years and never received any warnings. Obviously there could be a problem beyond a certain large scale, but it's wildly unlikely an ISP is going to notice or care about someone's little blog.
My old ISP explicitly prohibited using well-known ports which was annoying because switching ports at the CDN layer isn't free or cheap. My new ISP does prohibit operating as a server for more than personal use at home, or something to that effect. I predominantly use my Sandstorm server for personal access and content, and since Cloudflare is CDNing the crud out of any public content I host, it should be negligible or unnoticeable, unless I host content that gets me in legal trouble enough for Cloudflare to out the real source.
Technically, it’s true. AT&T supposedly blocks port 80 although I don’t think that’s the case for fiber but I would imagine if you’re doing more than just a personal blog site and using way more than a residential customer would use, you’ll attract some attention.
It's an entirely corrupt racket, but they're the only game in town, so you'd best not jeopardize your only option for high speed internet.
Additionally, your home connection IP is PII that points uniquely and unambiguously at the place that you and your children sleep unguarded at night. Don't draw attention to it.