It’s not a perfect solution (and I know people don’t love Cloudflare) but their Tunnels project is free. Hides your personal IP from the world, and provides some protection against known exploits.
But a VPS is quicker and easier, for sure.
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MxRemy@piefed.social 1 week ago
I've always wanted to do this, but I can't afford a VPS. And everytime I look into self-hosting on hardware at home, I just get the impression that it's nearly impossible... My ISP forbids it, and even if I can evade their notice, people say having a public facing setup at home is bound to get you attacked eventually
sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week ago
Your ISP forbids what, exactly?
It is complicated but Yunohost does make it a lot simpler.
MxRemy@piefed.social 1 week ago
Running a web server on my residential connection is against my ISP'S terms of service.
m33@theprancingpony.in 1 week ago
@MxRemy If you don't mind a man-in-the-middle Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale and alike is a good solution to ISP carrier NAT and port blocking
developers.cloudflare.com/clou…
tailscale.comDil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 week ago
Runtipi plus any vps, easy to setup and has gotosocial (stays more up to date) , or yunohost is easier with more options
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Self-hosting isn’t too bad. With a properly configured router (not as hard as it sounds), if you’re hosting something like a lemmy instance, the worst people can do is spam you with too many requests. An ISP that disallows self-hosting is a bummer though… having a static IP is pretty essential.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t have a static IP I just use a dynamic DNS. I don’t mess with self hosting fediverse cos I don’t wanna risk illegal content on my server tho.
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 week ago
racknerd 60$ a year 3core 6gb ram can run a lot, littlecreekhosting 3.50 a month 4core 8gb or 7 amonth 8core 16 (you gotta comment on their post on low end talk for littlecreek or you get half ram)
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 week ago
or free oracle vps , domain is around 12$ a year but porkbun has most domains for half off first year or less, .ing is half off, .buzz is like 1$
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 week ago
I got into webhosting rabbithole like a month ago if it isnt obvious, those are the best deals ive found, hetzner, 5$ a month, pay by the hour, is my favorite for testing stuff for cheap if you remember to delete it, invoiced 3rd of the month
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 week ago
The annual deals good for just not worrying about paying for it and forgetting about it sometimes
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A VPS costs 5 bucks a month.
MxRemy@piefed.social 1 week ago
I don't have that... 🙃
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fair enough
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah if you aren’t down to publicly expose your IP address / port forward, the cheapest way I can think of still involves a several $/mo VPS that just reverse proxies home to a more powerful PC. That’s what I do since I’m behind CGNAT.
Suoko@feddit.it 1 week ago
I hosted it on a 1€/month vps at ionos. An instance with multiple users actually, and it runs just great. Not a lot of space but hey, that’s 12€ per year
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Wow that’s impressive! I tend to be very value oriented, and at the sub $5 price, you’re getting so little that I feel like you’re mostly paying for a public IP and bandwidth. And of course selfhosting your compute is usually a win, especially if you already have something laying around. So I just pay the public IP tax for a reverse proxy and home host it all. I would probably go with a cheaper VPS for my reverse proxy but I need the confidence it’ll hold up to multiple friends Plex streaming.
m33@theprancingpony.in 1 week ago