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by gen220 1805 days ago
If you already own a domain, you can also pretty trivially (<10 lines of bash) implement your own dynamic IP address support with your DNS providers (my solution uses Cloudflare).

In a nutshell: `update-dns get-my-current-external-ip-address $MY_DOMAIN_NAME`

You can have a subdomain like `vpn.yourwebsite.com` point to your residential IP. It may take a bit of fussing to get the ports and such right. But otherwise it's "just worked" for me, for the last 6 months.

Useful if you want to remove the dependency on yet-another-service-provider that can go out of business (the dynamic-dns people).