Using OS X Server to host Wordpress site, good idea?

I have a 2009 Mac Pro. If I installed OS X Server to one of my HDD partitions, does OS X Server come with all the app's for me to host my Wordpress blog? I've already bought a domain name. I know it's more reliable (much better uptime if I bought cloud hosting), but at this moment it's just a casual blog. If my Mac Pro went to sleep would the blog/website go down? If yes, that's not a problem, but just want to know. I also think it would be fun to see if I can set up a blog/website and host myself.
But I read I need a static IP address for this to work? If yes, that means all the small businesses for which OS X Server is marketed to, need to buy a static IP address which I heard is expensive.
I also heard that hosting is dangerous as my Mac will get attacked/hacked? Wouldn't OS X Server include protective app's? And even if the hackers got through, the only damage they could do would be limited to the partition that OS X Server and the website is located on? I wouldn't want my whole network and my entire Mac Pro endangered. Please advise. Thanks!

In no particular order...
All internet-connected systems can and do get probed, can and do get attacked, and the attacks may or may not be accessible. WordPress in particular has a long history of security vulnerabilities, so not only are you keeping OS X current and backed up and related tasks, you're also now responsible for keeping and updating WordPress and likely also MySQL database software (quickly!) after vulnerabilities are announced.
OS X Server is the whole operating system, not something that sits in a partition — you boot OS X (with Server.app installed) and your Mac now has various services that are available.
If your Mac does get breached, then your whole local network is potentially vulnerable. This is why some sites configure their web-facing servers in what's called a DMZ. The DMZ is a second part of the local network that is configured such that it cannot access most or (preferably) all of your core network. Low-end router-gateway-firewall devices do not offer DMZ capabilities. Some open-source router-gateway-firewall packages do (if you want to use your own spare x86 hardware), and mid-range and upper-end commercial router-gateway-firewall devices often also do offer a DMZ.
Backups of your server are part of maintaining security — if you get breached, then having a set of backups in depth — multiple backups, going back to (hopefully) before the breach are how you can recover your environment, should your server be breached. You'll want to keep copies of these backups out of the DMZ and/or off-site or otherwise out of reach of the potentially-breached server, as some attackers have intentionally deleted everything.
When you install OS X Server, you'll also need to get your local network going, your local DNS services going — you cannot solely reference off-network DNS servers successfully, properly-configured local DNS services are a prerequisite — and you'll need to get port forwarding for TCP port 80 and potentially TCP port 443 configured through your router-gateway-firewall device — and you'll need these ports to not be firewalled at your ISP, and you'll usually also want to have static IP address though a non-firewalled dynamic IP configuration can be gotten going. (If you think you may want to run SMTP mail services eventually, then you'll either need static IP, or you'll have to run via a relay service.)
Also check with your ISP, and see if your service tier permits servers. Some of them don't, on the non-static-IP service tiers.
In short: do you really want to be IT and network support? If you do, then all this stuff is entirely feasible and does work and does work well — usually — and you'll learn a whole lot about IT, IP, networking, DNS services, Apache web services, and system and network security. If you just want to blog, then using a cheap or free hosting service (somewhere off of your network) will be far less work. Can all this work? Sure! There are a number of folks around the forums that host their own stuff. Once you get the hang of it all, it's not that bad to maintain, either.

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