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by MarvelousWololo 2580 days ago
Sorry about the ignorance but how do you run it from your garage? What about bandwidth? Could you share the url? Also would you recommend me any guide to get started?
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The usual roadblock in this process is getting ports exposed to the internet. In the best case this can just be done on your router configuration. In the unfortunately common case the ISP blocks you from doing this and the only solution is to change ISP.
I've heard of ISPs blocking ports, but not in Europe. I just forward ports 80 and 443 to the server (and pinhole the IPv6 ports) and it's done.

The upstream bandwidth is about 60Mb/s, which is fine for almost everything.

How can I do such thing? I'm in Europe as well. Do you have any guide to get me started?
The only thing you have to google for is “Port Forwarding” and it’s usually a few clicks in your router interface. Then you just run the service you want on your computer / NAS / Raspberry Pi and tell your router to forward the port to your service IP / Port. If you have a dynamic IP at home you probably also do have to get a script or something to update your domain records if you want to point a domain to your home service.