Comment on New to self-hosting

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s some nice documentation - way overkill for what I need though.

  Out of interest - Why is the VPS required, and why the mention of a non residential IP address? Could that not all be hosted locally if your ISP has given you a static IP address?

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  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The VPS is required specially if you, like me, are behind CG-NAT with no way to escape from it. Using a VPS (or any other kind of server with a public IP). Using a VPS is the cheapest option…

    residential IPs can be blocked for ports like 80, 443, 22 and the email ports in general (25, etc), using a non-residential IP could give a better experience. Moreover, even if not behind CG-NAT, having a public static and not-changing IP is a good advantage.

    Everything is hosted locally! the VPS is only a tunnel between internet and the home server.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Advantage of a VPS over home server is uptime.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also, it’s on a higher quality, faster network (a lot of VPS providers use either 10Gbps or 40Gbps networking these days) and more reliable, newer, enterprise-grade hardware.

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  • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can host it at home. Most IPs are not static but for some reason mine hasn’t changed in half a year. If it changes often you can use duckdns.

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    • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m paying for a static IP (and to get of cg-nat)

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      • lunachocken@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I just have a free oracle server that I use with wire guard to access my home server.

        Aka oracle server acts as a public facing server that relays traffic to my server. Im behind a cgnat btw and it works fine.

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