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>> One thing I really would like to have and get working, is a little selfhosted homeserver, instead of putting my websites on someone else's servers (although

by fm2606 4y ago

>> One thing I really would like to have and get working, is a little selfhosted homeserver, instead of putting my websites on someone else's servers (although cheap). It becomes more peer-to-peer this way, and I'm only relying on an internet service provider. As the cliche goes: "If I can do it, you can too" . If you have multiple sites I have no doubt you could get one up and running without much trouble. I have a few RPI 3b+ and 1x RPi4B that I use and host from home. Mainly just to dink around with, nothing crazy. One thing I did was get a cheap VPS ($4/m) to reverse proxy to my home. My next iteration is I think I'm going to actually host the site on VPS but have my home network push static files to the VPS. My site is mainly for me and this way I can fully disconnect between home and VPS. We will see, but again, this is why I have what I have so that I can play around and try different things out. Best of luck to you!

rambambram 4y ago
Nice! Exactly the things that I'm thinking of playing with. Thanks for sharing. > going to actually host the site on VPS but have my home network push static files to the VPS. My site is mainly for me and this way I can fully disconnect between home and VPS. Smart. Thanks for this tip. I've been looking into dynamic DNS services a bit, to see if I can/should use that for pointing to a webserver at home. Also, I'm considering to make a distinction between internetconnected but personal/private apps on one hand, and publicly served apps/sites on the other. Maybe I should just start and try to get a website online from home.
- fm2606 4y ago
  >> I've been looking into dynamic DNS services a bit That will still expose your IP address, at least NOIP did when I was using it. NOIP was a good service but after 5 years I noticed that my IP never changed (yeah! took me a while to catch on! ;>). The main driver for me was not showing my home IP on lookup and the yearly cost between a cheap VPS and NOIP subscription was roughly the same ~$60/year so nothing was lost there.

by fm2606 4y ago

rambambram 4y ago

Nice! Exactly the things that I'm thinking of playing with. Thanks for sharing. > going to actually host the site on VPS but have my home network push static files to the VPS. My site is mainly for me and this way I can fully disconnect between home and VPS. Smart. Thanks for this tip. I've been looking into dynamic DNS services a bit, to see if I can/should use that for pointing to a webserver at home. Also, I'm considering to make a distinction between internetconnected but personal/private apps on one hand, and publicly served apps/sites on the other. Maybe I should just start and try to get a website online from home.

fm2606 4y ago
>> I've been looking into dynamic DNS services a bit That will still expose your IP address, at least NOIP did when I was using it. NOIP was a good service but after 5 years I noticed that my IP never changed (yeah! took me a while to catch on! ;>). The main driver for me was not showing my home IP on lookup and the yearly cost between a cheap VPS and NOIP subscription was roughly the same ~$60/year so nothing was lost there.