[DictumMortuum]

Nice!

I have a raspberry 2b+ with several services: ldap, syncthing, gitea, cups server, minidlna, torrent server, NFS, nginx for PHP stuff like phpldapadmin, phpmyadmin, nextcloud, etc.

I realized that I don't need a public IP. I set up zerotier on all my machines and pointed a subdomain that I own to that IP. OK, other people can't visit it, but I rarely need them to.

It's perfect, but nextcloud is slow :( Maybe an upgrade to rpi 4 will help it be faster.

[jjice]

If you wanted it to be publicly accessible in the future, I think you can rent a cheap VPS (DO Droplet) and set up a VPN, and then connect to that VPN on your Pi. Then you can have Nginx on the VPS and reverse proxy to any services you'd like.

[DictumMortuum]

I've been monitoring what VPSs are an option. I'd like to have something faster, because it'll be cost-effective, but I don't want another headache.

[enneff]

If they're going to spin up a VPS then they might as well decommission the Raspberry Pi, before it decommissions itself. :-)

[DictumMortuum]

Well, most of the services do not even have a noticeable lag, but nextcloud is taxing!

[bananaeater]

They could also try dynamic DNS. I've had success with using ddclient with a personal (sub)domain with NameCheap.