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by captn3m0 2345 days ago
I've been running my homeserver for a couple of years now (in India), even gave a talk about it at RootConf last year. It is definitely doable. Two approaches that I'd suggest:

1. Talk to your ISP. Most of them will assign you a public static IP for a fee (5000 INR/yr was what I was quoted last time)

2. Setup a simple proxy on a $5 droplet on Digital Ocean. I run OpenVPN server on the droplet, a client on the homeserver, and `simpleproxy` that forwards the relevant ports. You can do the same with iptables as well.

3. Any other approaches involving ngrok-like solutions are much costlier, unless you host it.