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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by johnnixon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Pro: 1Gb upload and download speeds on free Internet provided by the HOA. Con: As a self hoster, I have zero control over it. No port forwarding, no DMZ, no bridge mode. It's Starbucks free WiFi with a wired connection.

Option A: Buy Google Fiber and don't use free Internet. Option B: Create some elaborate tunnel through a VPS.

My public self hosted activities are fairly low bandwidth (password manager, SSH). I have a vague idea that I could point my domain to a low cost VPS that has a VPN tunnel into my home network for any incoming connection needs. That may require me to fill in port forwards on both systems but whatever. Tailscale is serving most of my remote needs but I still need a few ports. This does not fix the issue of online gaming port forwards (Nintendo Switch online requires a huge forwarded range for best performance) but oh well for now.

UPDATE: I think they're using this system. https://www.cambiumnetworks.com/markets/multi-family-living/ The personal Wi-Fi overview makes it clear each AP is given it's own VLAN which sounds a whole lot like the whole building is sharing one IP and there's no way I'm going to get my own Internet access. They even detail how you can roam the building and maintain your WiFi connection across your neighbor's and the common areas APs. This is the IPV4 future.

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[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 0 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure that it would fix all of your issues, but you could put some stuff behind a reverse proxy and use something like duckdns to setup dynamic dns.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 points 2 years ago

A reverse proxy needs you to forward ports 80 and 443, unfortunately.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not when used with Tailscale. You can put Tailscale on the VPS and on your home server, put Nginx on the VPS and point it to the Tailscale address for the desired service with your desired subdomain.

Voila, Nginx is serving your content through the Tailscale tunnel without edits to your home network. If Tailscale works, then this will work.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 years ago
[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe nginx does, but cloudflared does not, as far as I know (since it's an outbound tunnel). I haven't ever had to open any ports for cloudflared. However, it obviously requires you to use cloudflare.

[-] johnnixon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

A little searching seems like Cloudflare ~~Argo~~ tunnels might be a good route to try. And possibly free, though I'm not opposed to paying for a better service. There seems to be a fair amount of step by step documentation on this. I'll demo this on my lab as I haven't moved it to the new apartment yet.

[-] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, should be free unless you want more firewall features!

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