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Many people here, including myself, are heavily turned off by the mandatory subscription that costs as much for 2 years as an entire device. However, the servi
by solarkraft 5y ago
Many people here, including myself, are heavily turned off by the mandatory subscription that costs as much for 2 years as an entire device.
However, the service provided as part of the subscription, a static IP address forwarding to your device without terminating the TLS connection is actually cool. For about 30$/year (24$ sounds good), I'd absolutely buy that alone, since that's the key to the tag line - truly private e-mail.
I can build a home server myself (and in fact already have, with more features, though not nearly as elegant as a Helm). I'd be just fine with someone else running that service.
Hardware wise, besides the storage, Helm looks like a great little home server, especially for the (hopefully not subscription-subsidized ...) price. If it had slots for my own drives I'd seriously consider buying one. The yocto-based software is a bit of a downside, as I'd prefer something like a Debian for maintenance reasons, but setting that up manually would sure be possible.
- rubatuga 5y agoNot directly competing with Helm, but we at Hoppy Network provide a static IP over WireGuard. It came out of a desire for "truly private email". We provide: Clean IPv4 + IPv6 address, Reverse DNS, unblocked ports, unfiltered ICMP It's priced reasonably to keep bad actors out: https://hoppy.network https://hoppy.network We have a $60/year plan in the works, which will be available before the end of this year.
- 3np 5y agoAwesome, I was just looking for something like this the other day! SEO feedback: Try to be discoverable via term like "ipv4 tunnel provider", you may get more search leads. In my mind I was looking for an inverse Hurricane Electric. Also, do you have any plans at all to accept payments via cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin? That would make you guys a no-brainer.
- rubatuga 5y agoThanks for the SEO feedback, definitely something we will look into! We currently use Stripe, and I don't think Stripe has any plans to bring back crypto payments :(
- gsreenivas 5y agoVery cool - looking forward to seeing the new plan. I think this is a great solution for people who want to bring their own hardware. When you consider that we include a domain registration and offsite encrypted backups, our subscription pricing is fairly comparable.
- p1mrx 5y agoI like the idea of decoupling residential IP service from a physical ISP, but I'd be worried about getting blocked by Netflix, like Hurricane Electric's tunnel broker. Has Hoppy managed to avoid those problems?
- rubatuga 5y agoNope, Netflix blocked us pretty quick. Geo-blocks are the worst.