The article says it's right off a major street. So is it urban? Suburban? Single-family home? Inquiring minds want to know.
Open-air racks are typically less than 2 feet across and 3-4 feet deep (example [1]), hardly a significant stretch unless you live in a very small space.
1: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Open-Frame-Server-Rack/d...
I went the route of “find a dirt cheap gigabit colo” ($150/m for quarter rack with gigabit and bgp peering) and just tunnel the IP space back home. Upside is you don’t have to pay to have the circuit put to where you currently live and you don’t have to worry about space/noise. Downside is if you want to use it locally at home you get extra latency due to the tunnel.
I guess it depends on how your tunnel is set up, but shouldn't you be able to add a static route to your rack on the "home side"?
I thought you meant "use the services hosted on your rack at home" (thus my suggestion), not "use the IP addresses you own at home".
It took me way too long to realize this option - many builds using miniture casings with cooling issues later, when buying large 2U cases with 120mm fan walls is the ticket.