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dan@upvote.au 1 month agoit seems pretty sub-optimal for a personal site to be publicly associated with even a permanent IP address
What’s the downside you see from having a static IP address?
I don’t see any way to achieve this without a CDN, unfortunately.
I think you’re looking for a reverse proxy. CDNs are essentially reverse proxies with edge caching (their main feature is that they cache files on servers that are closer to a user), but it sounds like you don’t really care about the caching for your use case?
I don’t know if any companies provide reverse proxies without a CDN though.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What’s the downside to having one’s phone number in the public directory? There’s no security risk and yet plenty of people opt out. It’s personally identifying information.
Exactly.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
The difference is that an IP of a VPS doesn’t directly connect back to you. It’s in the provider’s name. Some providers let you change your IP address to a different one for a small fee.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes yes, I know all that. The fact remains that a permanent IP associated with an individual is personally identifying information. Even the variety in browser requests counts as such according to the GDPR, and that is usually pooled with lots of other users. This is clearly a level above that. It’s why, for example, I would not use the VPS for proxy web browsing: zero privacy.