Running a game server from PC vs renting one, differences?

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I have some questions about running a game server. Now in L4D2 I am pretty sure I tried hosting a local server once before and players pings would usually shoot up when a lot of action was going on, anyone know what that is all about? This was a while back but even then my upload speed was around 5-6mbps. So this shouldn't be the issue? Now it's 12mbps.

Is there a difference between connections running on a rented server vs running one from home for gaming? I looked around and managed to find this site http://www.gtsgaming.com/cart.php?gid=1&currency=2 which seemed a bit suspiciously cheap to me, but they look genuine from what I can tell. Anyone know if I would be better off renting one from there?
 
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