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Nowadays you cannot do selfhosting because of NAT and blocked ports on ISP networks.
by huachimingo 5y ago
Nowadays you cannot do selfhosting because of NAT and blocked ports on ISP networks.
- mattl 5y agoSelfhosting can also just be: hosting your own email and website and not on AWS.
- KronisLV 5y agoWell, if you can afford a cheap VPS, you can use something like WireGuard or OpenVPN to work around NAT - just forward all of the requests to the VPS to your own box instead. I did it a while ago and it seems to work fine to this day: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/how-to-publicly-access-your-homelab-behind-nat https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/how-to-publicly-access-you... (disclaimer: forwarding ALL ports is usually overkill, unless you're lazy like me) Alternatively, just ask your ISP for a static IP address, even though that could be more expensive.