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It's possible to host a website from your house, but it's not advisable. And in many cases it's not permitted. It's highly unlikely that your ISP will allow HTTP requests to your computer.
If I may suggest a few alternatives:
Hostgator
erhaps the best host I've ever used is Hostgator. They have awesome plans, fast support, and I've never had a crash even with high-traffic sites.
I believe I pay something like $15 /mo for one account, which includes "unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth". I host a two blogs with them.
Amazon Web Services
I use almost their entire suite of services. Amazon offers a free tier which includes 750 free hours (1 month) of EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud - a computer "instance" that can be used as a web server) on a m1.micro instance. It's small, but it can host and run a fairly big site with traffic.
You can graduate up to an m1.small instance for about $56/mo and you have full control of the server.
Note: you need a solid understanding of administering a web server. This is not like having an account created for you at Hostgator and using cPanel (but for advanced users, it's nice to have additional control, super-user capabilities, etc).
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