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by JohnFen 2659 days ago
> That was never true, you had to have permission from your ISP, and many forbade it (and some outright blocked those ports).

I don't know about that -- I've been running a webserver (as well as a few other servers such as email) using my residential ISP for decades, spanning several different ISPs including major national ones. It's never been a problem.