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Most home routers have functionality to do port forwarding and dyndns. Certbot for TLS/cert. Just get a free domain from the dyndns service. No VPS needed if yo

by z3t4 6y ago

Most home routers have functionality to do port forwarding and dyndns. Certbot for TLS/cert. Just get a free domain from the dyndns service. No VPS needed if you got your own hardware/Rasbery. Make sure you have backups. Just Dont expect a $30 PC to be without issues.

mqus 6y ago
For me its not the 30$ pc that has issues but the 10$ microsd card the os is on. I had to replace it for the third time in about 6 years now. But this is not something new of course, everybody will tell you to either use good uSD cards or put the os somewhere else, like an external hdd or so.
- sorenjan 6y ago
  This is purely an anecdote, but I had to replace a few SD cards in my Pi until I changed power supply. It's not even the official, it's just one that's rated for 5.0 V, 2.5 A. I've used the same card for a few years now.
- m-p-3 6y ago
  It's possible to boot from USB with the Pi4, I wouldn't run anything important from the MicroSD.
  - vorpalhex 6y ago
    A common setup is to pull the OS over the LAN and just use usb storage for all your actual stuff. Skip the sd card entirely except maybe as an OS fallback.
  - catdog 6y ago
    Even if direct USB boot does not work out you can just use the SD card to boot the kernel and have the root fs on USB. With the PI4 you probably can even get better performance from using a USB storage device as it has USB 3.0 Ports.
- jsjohnst 6y ago
  Go with the high endurance microSD cards. They are only a tiny bit more expensive and last a lot longer. If you’ve got a Pi with USB3 ports, I’d also recommend using an USB3 SSD flash drive for the majority of your writes.
  - tuatoru 6y ago
    Like the Samsung Edge series for Dashcams/IoT devices? I wish I could get some.
- numpad0 6y ago
  Many Raspberry Pi distro spend all the card’s TBW writing /var/log stuffs for no reason. It’s a known issue often attributed to “cheap microSD cards”.
  - Moru 6y ago
    Yes, just to explain why: microSD cards (and all flash storage) has a limited number of writes. If you let your rpi write logs, you will soon run out of writable space and if you are lucky you end up with a card that is read only. If unlucky it just stops working all toghether.
- ptrwis 6y ago
  May I ask what fs did you use? Maybe F2FS would extend the life of the flash memory
milankragujevic 6y ago
Of course they do, but a lot of people are behind CGNAT and do not have a public IP address assigned to their CPE, and as such reaching a device in the LAN from the outside - without the device reaching out to you first - is impossible. And, of course, it can't reach out to your phone because it's also behind CGNAT. So, you need a VPS to act as a bridge between your phone and the device, which would connect to the VPS on boot and route traffic through a tunnel.
- imrelaxed 6y ago
  Huh? Why can’t you assign a port/s to the CPE? You can even implement a port knocking scheme if you’re worried about some service/s on your home network being wide open to the world.
  - CydeWeys 6y ago
    The point is that outside traffic isn't even reaching anything you even have control over, because you don't have a public IP (i.e. the ISP won't set up port forwarding for you). Let's say you wanted to directly send a packet to my phone. There's no way we could make that happen even with both of our cooperation because my phone doesn't get a publicly addressable IP.
    - z3t4 6y ago
      Nat:ed ip's are a PITA. But any decent ISP will give you a public IP if you ask. We are running out of ipv4 addresses.
      - SturgeonsLaw 6y ago
        > if you ask And pay ;) Getting a static IP on an internet plan here in Australia will typically cost around $5 a month, and not all ISPs offer it on residential plans.
        totetsu 6y ago

by z3t4 6y ago

mqus 6y ago

For me its not the 30$ pc that has issues but the 10$ microsd card the os is on. I had to replace it for the third time in about 6 years now. But this is not something new of course, everybody will tell you to either use good uSD cards or put the os somewhere else, like an external hdd or so.

sorenjan 6y ago
This is purely an anecdote, but I had to replace a few SD cards in my Pi until I changed power supply. It's not even the official, it's just one that's rated for 5.0 V, 2.5 A. I've used the same card for a few years now.
m-p-3 6y ago
It's possible to boot from USB with the Pi4, I wouldn't run anything important from the MicroSD.
- vorpalhex 6y ago
  A common setup is to pull the OS over the LAN and just use usb storage for all your actual stuff. Skip the sd card entirely except maybe as an OS fallback.
- catdog 6y ago
  Even if direct USB boot does not work out you can just use the SD card to boot the kernel and have the root fs on USB. With the PI4 you probably can even get better performance from using a USB storage device as it has USB 3.0 Ports.
jsjohnst 6y ago
Go with the high endurance microSD cards. They are only a tiny bit more expensive and last a lot longer. If you’ve got a Pi with USB3 ports, I’d also recommend using an USB3 SSD flash drive for the majority of your writes.
- tuatoru 6y ago
  Like the Samsung Edge series for Dashcams/IoT devices? I wish I could get some.
numpad0 6y ago
Many Raspberry Pi distro spend all the card’s TBW writing /var/log stuffs for no reason. It’s a known issue often attributed to “cheap microSD cards”.
- Moru 6y ago
  Yes, just to explain why: microSD cards (and all flash storage) has a limited number of writes. If you let your rpi write logs, you will soon run out of writable space and if you are lucky you end up with a card that is read only. If unlucky it just stops working all toghether.
ptrwis 6y ago
May I ask what fs did you use? Maybe F2FS would extend the life of the flash memory

milankragujevic 6y ago

Of course they do, but a lot of people are behind CGNAT and do not have a public IP address assigned to their CPE, and as such reaching a device in the LAN from the outside - without the device reaching out to you first - is impossible. And, of course, it can't reach out to your phone because it's also behind CGNAT. So, you need a VPS to act as a bridge between your phone and the device, which would connect to the VPS on boot and route traffic through a tunnel.

imrelaxed 6y ago
Huh? Why can’t you assign a port/s to the CPE? You can even implement a port knocking scheme if you’re worried about some service/s on your home network being wide open to the world.
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  The point is that outside traffic isn't even reaching anything you even have control over, because you don't have a public IP (i.e. the ISP won't set up port forwarding for you). Let's say you wanted to directly send a packet to my phone. There's no way we could make that happen even with both of our cooperation because my phone doesn't get a publicly addressable IP.
  - z3t4 6y ago
    Nat:ed ip's are a PITA. But any decent ISP will give you a public IP if you ask. We are running out of ipv4 addresses.
    - SturgeonsLaw 6y ago
      > if you ask And pay ;) Getting a static IP on an internet plan here in Australia will typically cost around $5 a month, and not all ISPs offer it on residential plans.
      - totetsu 6y ago