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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My isp doesn't allow self hosting (available to WAN). Isn't that a pretty common condition in ToS for most ISPs?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I've never bothered to check, because I self host to serve 1-5 users, and I've never generated enough traffic for any ISP to notice. I would need to pay them more for a static IP address, but we have dynamic DNS services for that. My ISP doesn't put any actual obstacles in place beyond dynamic IP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here we have net neutrality so they legally can't restrict what you're doing with your connection, unless it's illegal or if you are doing stupid shit like messing with their infrastructure.

CGNAT is decently common though and that can restrict your self hosting capabilities substantially, but you can work around it if you want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you looked into setting up a reverse proxy? If you haven’t already, check out Traefik or Ngnix.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have not. I've only just started exploring self hosting and am quite a novice. Thanks for the lead!